Editorial board and reviewers

•     We aim for an editorial board and reviewer pool that is diverse in country and region, gender, career stage, specialty (anaesthesia, intensive care, emergency medicine, surgery, nursing and allied health) and practice setting (academic centres, district and private hospitals, and low-resource settings).

•     We actively invite qualified women clinicians and researchers, and experts from low- and middle-income countries.

•     We report the composition of the editorial board by country and gender.

Authors and research

•     Reporting of sex and gender following SAGER, and analysis of outcomes by sex, age and other relevant factors where possible.

•     Encouragement of research relevant to resource-variable settings, and fair credit for all contributing sites in multicentre studies.

•     Respectful, person-first and non-stigmatising language.

•     Fee waivers so that ability to pay does not limit publication.

•     Non-native English is not a reason for rejection when the science is sound.