Reporting Transparency and Checklists

Cadernos de Linguística strongly encourages authors to use international reporting guidelines and to complete checklists that match their study design. This practice improves the clarity, comparability, and reproducibility of published work, benefiting authors, reviewers, and readers alike.

Checklists, available in databases such as the EQUATOR Network, help ensure that all essential elements of a study are reported transparently.

Although checklist submission is not mandatory, authors are strongly encouraged to:

Indicate in the Methods section which checklist was followed;
Attach the completed checklist as supplementary material;
Make the checklist publicly available in a repository such as OSF or Zenodo, providing a persistent DOI/URL and citing it in the References.

How to indicate the use of a checklist

In the Methods (or Procedures) section, include the statement: “This study follows the X checklist (version Y), available at: DOI/URL.”
List the full checklist in the References section, including title, version, and DOI/URL.
(Optional) Upload the completed checklist in PDF format as supplementary material in OJS and/or deposit it in a public repository with a DOI.

Quick guide: contribution type → recommended checklist

Type of Contribution	Recommended Checklist	Official Link
Research Report (empirical studies: observational, experimental, corpus-based, surveys)	STROBE (observational) • CONSORT (randomized trials)	STROBE • CONSORT
Pilot Study (feasibility or small-scale test)	CONSORT – Pilot & Feasibility Trials	CONSORT-Pilot
Project Registration (study protocols)	SPIRIT (clinical protocols) • SRQR (qualitative protocols)	SPIRIT • SRQR
Registered Report	Registered Reports – COS	Center for Open Science
Reproducibility Report (replication, reanalysis)	APA JARS (replication module) + TOP principles	APA JARS • TOP
Literature Review (systematic or metasynthesis)	PRISMA 2020 (+ PRISMA-S for search strategy)	PRISMA • PRISMA-S
Interview (structured, semi-structured, biographical, thematic)	COREQ (interviews and focus groups)	COREQ
Experience Report (pedagogical or local interventions)	SRQR (general qualitative studies)	SRQR
Qualitative Synthesis (metasynthesis, narrative review of qualitative data)	ENTREQ	ENTREQ
Tutorial (methodological procedures, experiments, software)	TIDieR (detailed description of interventions and protocols)	TIDieR
Language Documentation (speech recordings, field data, multimodal archives)	COREQ (for qualitative analysis) + metadata standards ELDP	COREQ • ELDP
Theoretical Essay and Critical Perspective	No formal checklist; authors should ensure clarity of objectives, rationale, bibliographic basis, argumentation, implications, and limitations.	—

Good transparency practices

Analysis plan: describe the statistical, acoustic, or qualitative procedures and exclusion criteria used.
Availability: include the three standard statements for Data, Materials, and Code Availability, with links or DOIs.
Reproducibility: ensure that the data and code can reproduce the reported results.
Ethics: report approvals, consent, and confidentiality/anonymization safeguards.

Example of wording in the manuscript

“This study follows the STROBE checklist (version 4), with item-by-item tracking throughout the text. The completed checklist is available at: DOI/URL. Data, materials, and code availability statements are provided at the end of the manuscript.”

Frequently asked questions

The checklist doesn’t fit perfectly? Use the closest match and mark non-applicable items as “N/A.”
Can I use more than one checklist? Yes, in mixed-methods studies (e.g., STROBE + COREQ). Indicate this in the manuscript.
Are there templates available? Yes, the official checklist websites provide editable forms and examples.

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