Gary Collins
Director, Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Birmingham
Write research with clarity and confidence using reporting guidelines:
community-created recommendations that ensure everyone
can understand and use your work.
General reporting guidelines
These reporting guidelines apply to general, common types of healthcare research. Search our full database for more specific reporting guidelines that may better fit your research.
| STROBE | Observational Epidemiology, including:
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Systematic reviews Systematic reviews of trials Systematic review protocols Meta-analyses of Observational studies |
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Randomized trials Randomized trials (clinical trials, or experimental studies of health interventions) Protocols for randomized trials |
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| SRQR | Qualitative Research |
| CARE | Case Reports |
| STARD | Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies |
| TRIPOD+AI | Prediction Models |
| ARRIVE | Animal Research |
| SQUIRE | Quality Improvement in Healthcare |
| CHEERS | Economic Evaluations |
Search 700+ reporting guidelines
Reporting guidelines are widely endorsed by leading medical journals, including:
Reporting guidelines: Recommendations to help write up research clearly
Your research will be used by people from different disciplines and backgrounds for decades to come. Reporting guidelines are community-created recommendations for describing what you did and what you found so that everyone can understand, repeat, apply, and synthesise your work. Reporting guidelines make writing up research easier, and transparent research leads to better patient outcomes.
Writing manuscripts
Write confidently using a reporting guideline to quickly turn a blank page into a thorough and impactful manuscript.
Checking manuscripts
Use a reporting checklist to ensure you have included everything. Many journals require completed checklists at submission.
Writing applications
Reporting guidelines can help you write funding applications, ethics applications, and protocols, but they won’t make design decisions for you!
People use reporting guidelines in many ways and for many reasons.
Researchers
Both experienced and early career researchers use reporting guidelines to write, learn, and teach.
Editors
Editors from leading medical journals ask authors to use reporting guidelines and check for adherence.
Reviewers
Peer reviewers and evidence synthesisers use reporting guidelines to judge the transparency of research and identify missing information.
Tell us about a new reporting guideline
Are you developing a new reporting guideline, or do you know of one that’s recently been published? Help us keep the EQUATOR Network’s resources up to date by sharing the details with us.
Training
Want to feel more confident when writing and publishing your research? Want to write quickly, clearly, and concisely?
The UK EQUATOR Centre’s Publication School is a hands-on course designed for early-career researchers who want to take control of the writing process and get their work out into the world.
The EQUATOR Network
We are the leading global academic network dedicated to improving research reporting quality.
EQUATOR stands for Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research. Our mission is to improve the reliability and value of published health research literature by promoting transparent and accurate reporting and wider use of robust reporting guidelines.
We advance the work done by individual guideline development groups. We maintain a database of reporting guidelines, run training courses on how to write research articles, have resources for authors, publishers, peer reviewers, and reporting guideline developers.
We have centers in the UK (our head office), Canada, Australia, France, China, and US.
The UK EQUATOR Centre
The UK EQUATOR Centre is the headquarters of the EQUATOR Network.
The UK Centre is run by Professor Gary Collins, Department of Applied Health Sciences, based at Birmingham University, with collaboration from colleagues at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford. The UK EQUATOR Centre maintains this website, a database of reporting guidelines, and works with other organisations to promote transparent reporting and other good research practices. Alongside clinical and meta-research, we specialise in training researchers how to write.
