title: A systematic guide to reviewing a manuscript.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In this article, we provide a step-by-step guide to reviewing a manuscript that we hope will improve the quality of reviews for the AJR.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We have provided a detailed series of guidelines for providing excellent reviews of manuscripts. The template we have provided can be used to serve as a checklist for important questions to ask about manuscripts during the review process. Finally, the principles presented here also can be used as a guide for authors by providing a list of important features to include during manuscript preparation and thereby prospectively address questions that good reviewers are likely to ask.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. prove001@mc.duke.edu
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Provenzale
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Stanley
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000379:methods*; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000592:standards