Ethical approval section (when required)
Is there a dedicated section for ethical approval? Does its title and position match journal requirements?

Ethical approval statement (when required)
Is ethical approval addressed? Either in an ethics statement section or in the methods.

Ethical approval board named (when required)
Is the ethical review board named?

Conflict of Interest
Does a conflict of interest section exist? Does its title and position match journal requirements?

Data sharing
Does a data sharing statement exist? Does its title and position match journal requirements?

Author contributions
Does an author contributions section exist? Does its title and position match journal requirements?

Funding section
Does a funding section exist? Does its title and position match journal requirements?

Authors present
Are authors named?

Author email addresses
Are there author email addresses, and are these institutional?

Corresponding author
Is a corresponding author named?

Institutions
Are author institutions included?

Keywords
Are keywords provided?

Abstract present
Does the manuscript include an abstract?

Required headings
Does the main body include all required sections and headings, as per journal requirements for the article type?

In manuscript
If figures or tables are referenced in the text, are they present in the manuscript, as per journal requirements?

Do mentions match legends?
Do all figures and tables mentioned in the text have an associated legend, and vice versa.

Ascending IDs
Are figures and table legends in ascending numerical order?

Do citations and references match? Do all citations appear in the reference list, and vice versa?

Order
Do numerical citations appear in ascending order? Do named references appear in alphabetic order?

Line numbers
Has the author included line numbers?