Reporting guidelines are 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. Although they recommend information to include in your manuscript, they don’t dictate how to order that information.
Most reporting guidelines consist of the full guidance (sometimes called an Explanation and Elaboration document) and a checklist. The full guidance provides detailed explanations and examples for each item, and the checklist allows you to demonstrate adherence to editors.
You can use reporting guidelines throughout your research process. However you use reporting guidelines, please cite them.
Writing manuscripts
Write confidently using a reporting guideline to quickly turn a blank page into a thorough and impactful manuscript.
Checking
Use a reporting checklist to demonstrate to an editor or peer reviewer that 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!
Reporting guidelines are neither design nor quality appraisal tools.
Although reporting guidelines recommend information to include when writing up research, they do not mandate how to design research. Similarly, when reviewing literature, although you can use reporting guidelines to assess whether a manuscript is well reported, you cannot use them to appraise whether that study is well designed.
Key information
Reporting guideline acronym
ARRIVE
Provided for
Reporting any area of bioscience research using laboratory animals
Relevant URLs (full-text if available)
Full text PDF documents of the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) guidelines 2.0, ARRIVE 2.0 explanation and elaboration, and ARRIVE 2.0 checklists are available at https://www.arriveguidelines.org/resources
PubMed ID
Downloads
Bibliographic reference
Commonly used reporting guidelines
| STROBE | Observational Studies |
| PRISMA | Systematic reviews of trials |
| PRISMA-P | Systematic review protocols |
| CONSORT | Randomised trials |
| SPIRIT | Randomised trial protocols |
| SRQR | Qualitative Research |
| CARE | Case Reports |
| STARD | Diagnostic studies |
| TRIPOD+AI | Prediction Models |
| ARRIVE | Animal Research |
| SQUIRE | Quality Improvement |
| CHEERS | Economic Evaluations |
| Search all |
Percie du Sert N, Hurst V, Ahluwalia A, Alam S, Avey MT, Baker M, Browne WJ, Clark A, Cuthill IC, Dirnagl U, Emerson M, Garner P, Holgate ST, Howells DW, Karp NA, Lazic SE, Lidster K, MacCallum CJ, Macleod M, Pearl EJ, Petersen O, Rawle F, Peynolds P, Rooney K, Sena ES, Silberberg SD, Steckler T and Wurbel H. The ARRIVE Guidelines 2.0: updated guidelines for reporting animal research.
This guideline was published simultaneously in 7 journals. You can read the guideline in any of these journals using the links below.
PLoS Biol. 2020;18(7):e3000411. PMID: 32663219
BMC Vet Res. 2020;16(1):242. PMID: 32660541
BMJ Open Science. 2020;4:e100115 (PDF).
Br J Pharmacol. 2020. PMID: 32662519
Exp Physiol. 2020. PMID: 32666546
J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2020. PMID: 32663096
J Physiol. 2020. PMID: 32666574
Additional information
Language
English
Availability in additional languages
The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0 have been translated into the following languages: French; German; Chinese. These are available at https://www.arriveguidelines.org/resources
Translations of the original ARRIVE guidelines (published in 2010) are also available in: Italian; Japanese; Korean; Portuguese; Brazilian Portuguese; Spanish. These are also available at https://www.arriveguidelines.org/resources
Study design
- Animal pre-clinical research
Clinical area
- No clinical specialty specified
Applies to the whole report or to individual sections of the report?
- Whole report
Reporting guideline website URL
Previous versions of this guideline / Guideline history
The ARRIVE reporting guideline was originally published in 2010.
The guideline was published simultaneously in 4 journals. You can read the 2010 guideline in any of these journals using the links below.
Kilkenny C, Browne WJ, Cuthill IC, Emerson M, Altman DG. Improving bioscience research reporting: the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal research.
PLoS Biol. 2010;8(6):e1000412. PMID: 20613859
Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2012;20(4):256-260. PMID: 22424462
Vet Clin Pathol. 2012;41(1):27-31. PMID: 22390425
J Pharmacol Pharmacother. 2010;1(2):94-99. PMID: 21350617
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