Write and reportLimits and conditions
Writing and reporting:limits and conditions.
What the manuscript check examines, how its findings should be read, and what it does not attempt.
What it does not do
- No proof of prose
- The check covers numbers, units, directions, definitions, and claim strength against evidence. It does not prove arbitrary text, and it does not guarantee acceptance or compliance with every journal requirement.
- No citation audit
- It does not audit every reference in the manuscript.
- No new research ideas
- It does not propose hypotheses or write the paper.
How to read the findings
- Three kinds of finding
- Rule-based checks, AI assessments, and items that could not be checked are reported separately. AI assessments can miss problems or raise false alarms.
- Only what you submit
- A check covers the sections, tables, and figures provided. It does not certify the whole manuscript.
- Figures need data
- Figure values are checked against source data or structured values. Numbers are not recovered from images alone.
- Pre-specified results
- This section shows the study’s pre-specified analysis results. It does not say which result should be primary or check other statements in the manuscript. A match with the manuscript does not show how the study was chosen or that the same data were not registered as another study, and declarations such as not having seen results beforehand are shown as declarations, not confirmed facts.
Documents and versions
- Supported content
- Supported document content is a fixed set. Complex Word formatting and embedded images are not fully extracted.
- Snapshots
- When a stable external version is not available, the document is stored as a snapshot taken at retrieval.
- Edits it has not seen
- Changes made outside SciGround after import are not checked until the document is imported again. Whether a suggested correction was applied is unknown unless the edited document comes back.
- Write-back
- Corrections are returned as new versions. There is no continuous synchronization, direct overwrite, or simultaneous co-editing, and exported packages do not update themselves.