Data Availability Policy

Authors are encouraged to provide appropriate information about the availability of data, software, code, materials, and other resources necessary to support the research reported in their manuscripts.

Data Availability Statement

Where applicable, authors should include a statement describing whether supporting data are publicly available, available upon reasonable request, subject to restrictions, or not applicable.

Ethical and Legal Restrictions

Data should not be shared where doing so would violate privacy, confidentiality, legal requirements, intellectual-property rights, ethical approvals, or other legitimate restrictions.

Reproducibility

Authors are encouraged to provide sufficient methodological and computational information to support the understanding and, where possible, reproducibility of published research.