Authors follow standards and checklists for formatting manuscripts for publication, but there are few standards for the content of what is reported in manuscripts in basic science. In January 2014, Psychological Science introduced a four-item checklist of disclosure standards for submission: rationale for sample size, outcome variables, experimental conditions, and use of covariates in analysis. Enriched checklists and reporting standards such as CONSORT and ARRIVE are in use in clinical trials and animal research respectively (http://www.consortstatement. org/; http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/page.asp?id=1357). And, specialized reporting standards have been introduced for some methods, such as fMRI [84]. Such practices may improve the consistency and clarity of reporting.
