[rcthompson]

There actually are checklists you have to fill out when publishing a paper. You have to certify that you provided all relevant statistics, have not doctored any of your images, have provided all relevant code and data presented in the paper, etc. For every paper I have ever published, every last item on these checklists was enforced rigorously by the journal. Despite this, I routinely see papers from "high-profile" researchers that obviously violate these checklists (e.g.: no data released, a not even a statement explaining why data was withheld), so it seems that they are not universally enforced. (And this includes papers published in the same journals around the same time, so they definitely had to fill out the same checklist as I did.)