Getting started

About Cochrane Accounts

Good practice resources for new Cochrane authors

Support for RevMan

Cochrane Style Manual Basics (pdf) (Home)

Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource (Home)

• Authorship and contributorship
• Managing expectations

Cochrane guidance

Cochrane Handbook (Home)

Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR; Home)

• Conduct standards C1 - 75 (pdf) or link
• Standards for reporting of protocols of new Cochrane intervention reviews PR1 - 44 (pdf) or link

Risk of Bias version 2.0 (Home; correct at 5 April 2019)

• Download the Excel tool to implement RoB 2 (contains macros; download to your computer before using)

GRADE and preparing Summary of findings (SoF) tables

GRADE resources

Preparing SoF tables (pdf)

PaPaS guidance

RevMan protocol template (suggested text and guidance) download pdf (*updated November 2020*)

Other guidance

Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Review Group resources (Home)

• What are explanatory factors and why should they be included in protocols? (pdf)
• Incorporating economic evidence (pdf)

Training, support and webinars

Task Exchange

Involving People: getting people involved in review production (including Cochrane Consumers)

Cochrane Training (Home)

• Module 1: Introduction to conducting systematic reviews
• Module 2: Writing the review protocol
• Module 3: Searching for studies
• Learning events
• Common errors in writing protocols (webinar)

Policies

Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource (Home)

See also our policies page.