Disseminating your reporting guideline

Simply publishing a reporting guideline is unlikely to make a difference to the quality of future reporting. An implementation plan will help ensure that your reporting guideline reaches the researchers who need it. Some common strategies are:

• Making the checklist freely available in an editable format

• Creating a dedicated website containing additional resources

• Provide us with details so we can create an entry in the EQUATOR Network database

• Publishing journal editorials, written by your team or by the journal staff. It is particularly effective to have a number of journals in a field simultaneously publish an editorial in support of your guideline

• If you want to write a short entry about your reporting guideline for the EQUATOR Website News section, please contact us.

• Obtaining journal and other organisational endorsement

• Presenting your guideline at relevant conferences and meetings

• Writing blog posts and other social media posts about your guideline

• Delivering a webinar explaining your guideline

• Developing and delivering training in using your guideline, whether face-to-face or online

• Partnering with the EQUATOR Network or similar organisations in their promotional activities