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Your manuscript is being returned for the following reasons

From the darkest depths of the internet, SMTP, IMAP and POP; murmurs and groans:

Dear Dr Vuorre,
Thank you for submitting your work to [redacted]. We've received your submission "[redacted]", however, it is being returned to you for the following reason(s):

  1. Please include a separate title page with author information as the first page of the manuscript. On the title page, please include a data availability statement in an author note on the title page and at the end of the method section indicating whether you have made data, analytic methods, and study materials publicly available to other researchers OR the reasons for not doing so.
  2. Please include a conflict-of-interest statement in the author note. The statement should disclose any real or potential conflict(s) of interest; if there are no conflicts of interest, please state this.
  3. To aid reviewers, please double space the lines of your manuscript.

Dear readers who have not seen this stuff before: Academics, whose salaries are typically paid by the taxpayer, spend a non-insignificant amount of time clicking around in Microsoft Word in order to satisfy completely arbitrary rules set forth by journals such that said journals could publish and profit off the academics' work.

And that tinkering happens before peer-review. It is common that after the academic tinkers with the manuscript and resubmits, the manuscript is rejected after peer-review. Then the academic must submit it elsewhere with some other arbitrary tinkering requirements.

It's science

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