Want help writing up research?
Your research will be read by researchers.
Write quickly and confidently using reporting guidelines: community-created recommendations that ensure everyone can understand and use your work.
About EQUATOR
We are the leading global academic network dedicated to improving research reporting quality.
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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 template 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!
Learn how and why people use reporting guidelines
People around the world use reporting guidelines in many ways and for many reasons.
Researchers
Sally is an experienced academic with hundreds of publications. James is a PhD student. Both use reporting guidelines to write, learn, and teach.
Editors
Read why editors from leading medical journals ask authors to use reporting guidelines and how they check adherence.
Reviewers
Dr Siaw Shi Boon uses reporting guidelines when peer reviewing and when synthesising evidence for policy recommendations.
The EQUATOR Network
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 are the first coordinated attempt to tackle the problems of inadequate reporting systematically and on a global scale.
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 publishers, peer reviewers, and reporting guideline developers.
We have centers in the UK (our head office), Canada, Australia, France, and China.
