What is a data availability statement and why do I need one in my manuscript?

Some journals encourage data sharing wherever possible, unless this is prevented by ethical, privacy or confidentiality matters. Authors may be expected to make their data, scripts, and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper available through a publicly available data repository. If the study includes original data, at least one author must confirm that he or she had full access to all the data in the study, and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

To enable readers to locate archived data, authors may be required to include a Data Accessibility section.

For more information and templates for the Data Availability statement, see the author guidelines for the journal.

If a data availability statement is not in your manuscript, you should add it and reupload your Main Document.