Prepare Your Submission

Confirm that your manuscript aligns with the special issue theme and includes required documentation.

Indicate the special issue title in your cover letter for proper routing.

Align your submission with the special issue theme and include the theme name in the cover letter.

Summaries linking lipid outcomes to clinical relevance strengthen translation to care.

Report software versions and packages to support reproducibility.

Provide details on internal standards and extraction protocols.

Explain how missing lipid values were handled during analysis.

Include quality assurance steps for instrument calibration.

Clarify whether analyses were preregistered or exploratory.

Describe any adjustments for medication use affecting lipid profiles.

Peer Review

Special issue submissions follow the same peer review standards as regular articles, including methodological rigor and transparency.

Provide complete files at first submission to avoid delays.

Define lipid classes and abbreviations clearly for multidisciplinary readers.

If data access is restricted, describe approval processes and timelines.

Summarize participant demographics to contextualize lipid findings.

Provide a rationale for chosen lipid biomarkers or panels.

Report confidence intervals for key lipid effects.

Summarize limitations related to lipid measurement or sample size.

Submission Workflow

Clear lipid reporting improves interpretability for clinicians and metabolic researchers.

When using lipidomics, report normalization and quality control procedures.

Describe sample storage temperatures and timing to support lipid stability assessment.

Clarify fasting status or dietary controls when relevant to lipid measures.

Highlight how lipid findings inform prevention or therapeutic decisions.

When using animal models, specify strain, diet, and lipid outcome timing.

Explain the choice of statistical model for lipid outcome distributions.

Quality Expectations

• Transparent lipid methods and assay details
• Clear reporting of data sources and limitations
• Strong relevance to the special issue theme

We encourage authors to document assay conditions so lipid measurements remain comparable.

Provide uncertainty measures for key estimates when applicable.

Include calibration standards and quality control materials for lipid assays.

Report variability across cohorts or sites for multicenter lipid studies.

Discuss biological plausibility for lipid associations observed.

Describe tissue sources and sampling methods for lipid analyses.

Report sensitivity analyses to test robustness of lipid findings.

Support

For submission questions, contact [email protected].

Transparent reporting of sample handling helps readers interpret lipid stability.

Explain how confounders were selected in observational lipid studies.

Document batch effects and correction methods for multi run lipidomics.

Describe statistical correction for multiple testing in lipidomics.

Describe how lipid ratios or indexes were calculated.

Provide context for effect sizes in relation to clinical thresholds.

Include discussion of sex or age differences in lipid outcomes when applicable.