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EDITORIAL

Update on statistics guidelines for American Physiological Society journals

Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: D. U. Silverthorn, Section of Integrative Biology, Univ. of Texas, 1 University Station, C0930, Austin, TX 78712 (E-mail: silverthorn{at}mail.utexas.edu)

THREE YEARS AGO, American Physiological Society (APS) journals published an editorial by Curran-Everett and Benos with suggested guidelines for reporting statistics in research articles (1). The authors then tracked whether their guidelines were implemented and prepared a followup report (2). Their request to have the sequel published in all APS journals met with unexpected resistance, however, and engendered considerable discussion, both formal and informal, at the March 2007 Editors' Meeting. Some editors fully supported the guidelines, but others had reservations about the recommendations, feeling that they might be viewed as a mandate and thereby drive authors to less prescriptive journals. The outcome of the discussion was the decision to publish the followup article, along with invited commentaries, in Advances in Physiology Education, in the hope of further educating authors about the rationale for appropriate statistical reporting. The sequel article, commentaries, and closing comments by Curran-Everett and Benos appear in this issue of Advances in Physiology Education.

REFERENCES

1. Curran-Everett D, Benos DJ. Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American Physiological Society. Adv Physiol Educ 28: 85–87, 2004.[Free Full Text]
2. Curran-Everett D, Benos DJ. Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American Physiological Society: the sequel. Adv Physiol Educ; doi:10.1152/advan.00022.2007.

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