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This journal in line with many others provides guidance for prospective authors designed to steer the preparation of papers for submission and consideration for publication.1 Failure to follow the guidance is one of the most common reasons for rejection, so this editorial is to highlight their importance. We aim to give advice on the preparation of different types of articles, including original articles, short reports, case reports and letters, and we provide a template for case reports. At a recent editors board held at the Congress, we spent some time discussing the reporting of systematic reviews using the PRISMA tool (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses).

Reporting tools have grown up over recent years out of the …

Correspondence to Professor Phil Wiffen, Pain Research Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK; phil.wiffen{at}ndcn.ox.ac.uk

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