Tools and templates for implementing reporting guidelines

We produce tools and templates for you to easily implement reporting guidelines in your existing journal workflow

You’ll find

• An electronic decision-making tool to help authors find the right reporting guideline
• Template letters to authors requesting adherence to reporting guidelines, before and after peer review

If you would like to share your journal’s templates and tools for inclusion in this toolkit, please contact us on [email protected]. We’d also love to hear whether these tools are useful in your journal!

Letters to authors

The following templates are designed for use by journals requiring reporting guidelines and checking compliance with the policy by either editorial staff or peer reviewers.

• Request revisions to comply with a reporting guideline after checks by an editor or a single peer reviewer (Word)
• Request revisions to comply with a reporting guideline after full peer review (Word)
• Request revisions to comply with a reporting guideline alongside acceptance (Word)

Keep checking back for more tools and templates to help you include reporting guidelines in your journal’s workflow.

• Find suggestions and templates for communicating your reporting guideline policy to your readers, authors, and reviewers
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