When emailing manuscripts to Penelope, put keywords into the body of your mail to control which checks get done.
No Keywords (default):
Leave the email blank and Penelope will assume the manuscript is a generic research article. By default, it will check for:
- A data citation and statement
- Funding and acknowledgements sections
- A structured abstract
- Introduction, methods, results and discussion sections
- All tables & figures have legends and are present in the docx
- All F, t, and r tests have their degrees of freedom, and match with the given p-values
- All p-values are given as equalities and accompanied by confidence intervals
- Percentages are accompanied by absolute values
- All citations are referenced, and vice versa
letter:
Will carry out all default checks, but won't look for any section headings, acknowledgements, funding or data.
review:
(This is for literature review articles, not systematic reviews). Will carry out all default checks, but won't look for any section headings.
HUmans:
Will carry out all default checks, and will look for ethical approval and informed consent.
Animals or Arrive:
Will additionally look for ethical approval, and citation of the ARRIVE guidelines.
Cell lines:
Will check for mention of mycoplasma and any cell lines on the ICALC register
CLinical trial or consort:
Will additionally look for trial registration, ethical approval, informed consent and citation of the CONSORT guidelines.
Case report or CARE:
Will do all default checks but won't look for a methods section. Will look for citation of the CARE guidelines.
STROBE, PRISMA, MOOSE, ENTREQ, REMARK, SRQR, TRIPOD, STARD:
Will look for citation of the respecting guidelines.