Data Archiving and Permissions

Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.

The statement says where the data can be found, with accession numbers or DOIs, or explains why data cannot be shared, for example because of participant consent or legal restrictions, and how qualified researchers may request access.

• Nucleotide and read data: GenBank, European Nucleotide Archive, DDBJ and the Sequence Read Archive.
• Expression and functional genomics data: Gene Expression Omnibus and ArrayExpress.
• Structures: Protein Data Bank, Nucleic Acid Knowledgebase and the Electron Microscopy Data Bank.
• Other data and code: a general-purpose repository such as Zenodo, Figshare or Dryad, and a code repository with a versioned release.

Human data that could identify participants is deposited in a controlled-access repository where applicable.

Posting a preprint is not considered prior publication. Authors give the preprint DOI at submission and update the preprint record when the article is published.

Figures, tables and text taken or adapted from other publications require written permission from the rights holder, supplied with the submission and credited in the legend. Material published under CC BY may be reused with attribution.

This journal’s content is committed to Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive run by ITHAKA (the organization behind JSTOR). As articles are deposited they enter Portico’s permanent archive, so the scholarly record stays available for the long term — even if a title one day ceases to publish.

See Indexing and Archiving.