Use of reporting guidelines

Both to review best practices and ethical standards in the conduct and reporting of research and other material published in medical journals, and to help authors, editors, and others involved in peer review and biomedical publishing to create, review and distribute accurate, clear, reproducible, unbiased medical journal articles.

To establish international standards for editors and to describe responsible research reporting practices.

To provide guidance on assessing in which cases text recycling constitutes research misconduct.