First published: June 30, 2015 

Last updated: August 15, 2020

Guidelines for manuscript preparation, submission, and manuscript format: Randomized controlled trial

These randomized controlled trial articles are submitted by any author and describe a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected/assigned by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.

For full randomized controlled trial article guidelines for manuscript preparation, submission, and manuscript format, please click on the links below: