Reporting Guidelines, Research Ethics Documents & Data Statements

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Responsible manuscript preparation includes transparent reporting, appropriate ethics documentation, and clear information about data, code, protocols, and related research materials. These elements help editors, reviewers, readers, institutions, and funders understand how the work was designed, conducted, documented, and made available where appropriate.

This page provides publisher-level guidance for authors preparing submissions to CorayNova journals. It does not replace the requirements of an individual journal. Authors should review the relevant journal page and author guidelines on the CorayNova Journals Platform before submission. Where a journal sets specific requirements, those journal-specific requirements are authoritative.

· Use Reporting Guidelines Where Applicable

Authors should consider whether a recognized reporting guideline applies to their study design, discipline, method, or article type. Reporting guidelines can help authors describe research design, methods, analysis, results, limitations, and interpretation with sufficient clarity and transparency.

Examples may include CONSORT for randomized trials, PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, STROBE for observational studies, CARE for case reports, ARRIVE for animal research, and SAGER for sex and gender equity in research reporting, where applicable. These examples are not exhaustive and should not be treated as a single template for all fields. Each journal may specify which reporting guidelines, checklists, flow diagrams, or supporting documents are required for particular article types.

· Prepare Research Ethics Documents and Statements

Research involving human participants, animals, personal data, questionnaires, interviews, clinical settings, fieldwork, vulnerable groups, sensitive communities, confidential information, or institutional records may require ethics approval, informed consent, institutional permission, legal review, or other appropriate safeguards.

Authors should prepare the relevant ethics approval statement, consent statement, permission statement, or explanation of non-applicability before submission. When ethics approval is not applicable, authors should state this where required by the target journal. The exact format, required documents, exceptions, and review process are determined by each journal.

· Consider Registration or Preregistration Requirements

Clinical trials, study protocols, registered reports, systematic reviews, and some other research designs may require registration or preregistration according to journal, disciplinary, institutional, funder, or legal requirements. Authors should check the target journal's instructions before submission and provide registration details where applicable.

· Prepare a Data Availability Statement

CorayNova strongly encourages journals to require a Data Availability Statement, especially for research articles. A data statement helps explain whether supporting data are openly available, available under conditions, restricted, not newly generated, controlled by a third party, or not shareable for ethical, legal, privacy, commercial, security, or consent-related reasons.

Authors should not share data in ways that conflict with participant consent, privacy protection, legal obligations, third-party rights, research integrity, cultural sensitivity, or safety considerations. Each journal determines the required statement format, exceptions, evidence checks, and review process.

· Code, Protocols, Materials, and Sensitive Data

Where relevant, authors should describe the availability of code, protocols, study materials, instruments, appendices, or other outputs that support the manuscript. Persistent links, repository records, accession numbers, identifiers, or clear access conditions can improve transparency and reuse when appropriate.

When data, code, protocols, or materials cannot be shared, authors should provide a clear reason rather than leaving the status unclear. Sensitive, confidential, restricted, proprietary, legally protected, culturally sensitive, or third-party-controlled materials may require limited access, controlled access, or non-disclosure.

· Author Preparation Table

Requirement
When It May Apply
What Authors Should Prepare

Reporting guideline or checklist
When the study design, discipline, article type, or journal policy identifies an applicable reporting guideline.
Identify the relevant guideline, complete any required checklist or flow diagram, and ensure the manuscript reports the required methodological and analytical information clearly.

Ethics approval statement
When research involves human participants, animals, personal data, clinical records, fieldwork, institutional records, or other ethically sensitive contexts.
Prepare the approval body name, approval or reference number where available, approval date where required, or a clear explanation of why formal approval was not required.

Informed consent statement
When participants, patients, interviewees, identifiable individuals, images, quotations, or personal information are included.
Prepare a statement explaining consent for participation and, where applicable, consent for publication. Do not include confidential participant details in the manuscript file.

Questionnaires, interviews, surveys, and fieldwork
When the research collects responses, narratives, observations, personal data, or community-based information.
Confirm ethical review, consent approach, anonymity or confidentiality protections, data handling, and permissions required by the target journal or institution.

Clinical trial registration or preregistration
When journal, disciplinary, funder, institutional, or legal rules require trial registration or preregistration.
Provide the registry name, registration number, link, date, and any protocol information required by the journal.

Data Availability Statement
Especially for research articles and any manuscript that relies on data, datasets, materials, records, or evidence beyond the text itself.
State whether data are open, available under conditions, restricted, not newly generated, unavailable, or controlled by a third party. Include repository links or identifiers where appropriate.

Code, protocol, or materials statement
When software code, analytical scripts, study protocols, laboratory methods, instruments, or other research materials support the work.
Provide repository records, persistent identifiers, access conditions, version information, or a reason why sharing is not possible.

Sensitive data exception
When data sharing may conflict with privacy, consent, law, commercial confidentiality, cultural sensitivity, security, or third-party rights.
Explain the limitation clearly and responsibly. Do not disclose restricted data in the manuscript, supplementary files, or public repositories.

· Questions

For questions about reporting guidelines, research ethics documents, data statements, code or protocol information, or journal-specific author requirements, authors may contact the Editorial Office at editorial@coraynova.com or contact CorayNova through the Feedback page.

Requirement	When It May Apply	What Authors Should Prepare
Reporting guideline or checklist	When the study design, discipline, article type, or journal policy identifies an applicable reporting guideline.	Identify the relevant guideline, complete any required checklist or flow diagram, and ensure the manuscript reports the required methodological and analytical information clearly.
Ethics approval statement	When research involves human participants, animals, personal data, clinical records, fieldwork, institutional records, or other ethically sensitive contexts.	Prepare the approval body name, approval or reference number where available, approval date where required, or a clear explanation of why formal approval was not required.
Informed consent statement	When participants, patients, interviewees, identifiable individuals, images, quotations, or personal information are included.	Prepare a statement explaining consent for participation and, where applicable, consent for publication. Do not include confidential participant details in the manuscript file.
Questionnaires, interviews, surveys, and fieldwork	When the research collects responses, narratives, observations, personal data, or community-based information.	Confirm ethical review, consent approach, anonymity or confidentiality protections, data handling, and permissions required by the target journal or institution.
Clinical trial registration or preregistration	When journal, disciplinary, funder, institutional, or legal rules require trial registration or preregistration.	Provide the registry name, registration number, link, date, and any protocol information required by the journal.
Data Availability Statement	Especially for research articles and any manuscript that relies on data, datasets, materials, records, or evidence beyond the text itself.	State whether data are open, available under conditions, restricted, not newly generated, unavailable, or controlled by a third party. Include repository links or identifiers where appropriate.
Code, protocol, or materials statement	When software code, analytical scripts, study protocols, laboratory methods, instruments, or other research materials support the work.	Provide repository records, persistent identifiers, access conditions, version information, or a reason why sharing is not possible.
Sensitive data exception	When data sharing may conflict with privacy, consent, law, commercial confidentiality, cultural sensitivity, security, or third-party rights.	Explain the limitation clearly and responsibly. Do not disclose restricted data in the manuscript, supplementary files, or public repositories.