Review guidelines
Guidelines for reviews in research
Guidelines are a key component in the literature review process as they:
- Outline a process for completing the review
- Prompt for actions to ensure rigour, objectivity and transparency in the review
- Allow authors to state that the review was conducted to known, public standards
Why use review guidelines?
It’s practical and well advised to follow guidelines for the review type you have selected.
Guidelines for conducting and reporting reviews have been developed by expert researchers to ensure that reviews meet expectations in areas like transparency, reproducibility, quality, methods and reporting.
Explore guidelines for common review types
This page will explain some of the features of guidelines for these reviews so that you are able to remember their important elements.
Click on the drop-downs below to find out more about different resource types and how to read them.
Tip
There are many other guidelines for reviews, these can be discovered on the Systematic and Systematic-Like Review Toolkit.
Remember and reflect
Key takeaway
As there are different types of advanced literature reviews, there are also different guidelines that can be applied to a chosen review type.
Guidelines function to aid in your review decision-making, making sure that it gives support to evidence-based practice.
Consider
What guidelines will your review be evaluated against?