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The standard charge is 1,700 GBP (exclusive of VAT for UK and EU authors). Protocols have a discounted APC of 1,000 GBP. No payment information is requested before an article is accepted, so the ability to pay cannot affect editorial decisions. We do not offer refunds for Open Access once articles have been published. There are no submission, page or colour charges. Articles are published under a Creative Commons licence to facilitate reuse of the content and authors retain copyright; please refer to the <em>BMJ Open Respiratory Research</em> <a href="/bmjopenrespres/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/03/OA_co_owned_licence_March_2014.pdf">Copyright Licence Statement</a>. 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We recommend using recognised subject-specific repositories, such as <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/">GenBank</a>, where relevant and available. <a href="https://fairsharing.org/">FAIRsharing</a> provides a curated list of repositories. There are also a number of recognised, general repositories in which to deposit data, for example, <a href="https://datadryad.org/">DRYAD</a>, <a href="https://osf.io/">OSF</a>, <a href="https://figshare.com/">FigShare</a>, <a href="https://zenodo.org/">Zenodo</a>.</p><p>Wherever data is deposited in a repository with a persistent identifier (e.g a DOI or accession number) we request that this is cited in the article’s reference list.</p><p>To comply with some funder requirements, such as RCUK, we require that all authors publish a Data Availability Statement in their article.</p><p>We ask authors to choose one of the following statements:</p><ol><li>Data available in a public, open access repository</li><li>Data is uploaded as supplementary information (<i>Please consider option 1 instead</i>)</li><li>Data available upon request</li><li>Data available from a third party and not publicly available</li><li>Data Sharing not applicable (there is no data in this work)</li></ol><p>For options 1, 3, and 4 we will ask you to declare access information for the data.</p></div></div></div><div class="border-t-[1px] border-solid border-bmj-silver-100 mt-4" data-testid="sections-container-2"><h2 data-testid="sections-section-title" class="relative mb-0 [&>a]:absolute [&>a]:mt-[-20px]">Materials & Methods</h2><div class=" text-bmj-silver-800 whitespace-pre-wrap font-normal leading-[1.625rem] mt-0 flex flex-col md:mt-4 md:flex-row [&>div:last-of-type]:pr-0 [&>div]:mt-6 [&>div]:pr-0 [&>div]:md:mt-0 [&>div]:md:pr-4 [&>div:nth-of-type(1)]:w-full [&>div:nth-of-type(1)]:md:w-[100.00%] " data-testid="sections-subsection-content-container-0"><div data-testid="sections-column-0" class="inline md:inline [&_h2]:mt-0">To encourage the replicability and reproducibility of the literature we encourage all code, materials and methods used to be made publicly available. <strong>Materials</strong> BMJ is pleased to be part of the <a href="https://force11.org/group/resource-identification-initiative" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Resource Identification Initiative</a>, a project aimed at clearly identifying key biological resources used in the course of scientific research. This project helps address concerns of reproducibility by providing unique searchable identifiers, Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs), for critical reagents and tools. RRIDs can be used to link readers to external resources, and they also enable search engines to return all papers in which a particular antibody, organism, or tool was used. We see these as important steps toward ensuring reproducible methods and providing critical data to help researchers identify suitable reagents and tools. We encourage authors to include RRIDs in their manuscripts. <strong>Methods</strong> We encourage authors to deposit laboratory protocols in <a href="https://protocols.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">protocols.io</a>, where they will be assigned their own persistent digital object identifiers (DOIs). Please cite this DOI both in your Methods section and as a reference at the end of the article. <strong>Code</strong> All code needed to be able to reproduce the experiment that is not already described should be made available upon request. A statement of availability should be included in your manuscript. We encourage deposition in a publicly available repository, such as <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub </a>or <a href="https://codeocean.com/">Code Ocean</a>.</div></div></div><div class="border-t-[1px] border-solid border-bmj-silver-100 mt-4" data-testid="sections-container-3"><h2 data-testid="sections-section-title" class="relative mb-0 [&>a]:absolute [&>a]:mt-[-20px]">Preregistration</h2><div class=" text-bmj-silver-800 whitespace-pre-wrap font-normal leading-[1.625rem] mt-0 flex flex-col md:mt-4 md:flex-row [&>div:last-of-type]:pr-0 [&>div]:mt-6 [&>div]:pr-0 [&>div]:md:mt-0 [&>div]:md:pr-4 [&>div:nth-of-type(1)]:w-full [&>div:nth-of-type(1)]:md:w-[100.00%] " data-testid="sections-subsection-content-container-0"><div data-testid="sections-column-0" class="inline md:inline [&_h2]:mt-0"><p>We only accept clinical trials which have been preregistered. BMJ’s policy on trial registration can be found <a href="https://authors.bmj.com/planning-your-research/trial-registration/">here</a>.</p><p>We also strongly encourage the preregistration of <em>all</em> research before data gathering commences. Preregistration separates <i>hypothesis-generating</i> (exploratory) from <i>hypothesis-testing </i>(confirmatory) research and acknowledges their inherent differences. Removing these conflicts through preregistration improves the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of published research. 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