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.