First published in 2009, the PRISMA Statement provides guidance for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses. It includes a checklist, flow diagram, and explanation and elaboration document.
This document defines, explains, and provides examples for each of the 27 items in the PRISMA checklist. The E&E should be used in conjunction with the PRISMA statement and the PRISMA checklist.
The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (the Handbook) provides guidance to authors for the preparation of Cochrane Intervention reviews (including Cochrane Overviews of reviews).
In this report, the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends standards for systematic reviews of the comparative effectiveness of medical or surgical interventions.
The enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research, or ENTREQ, statement is aimed at improving the explicit and comprehensive reporting of the synthesis of qualitative studies.
This checklist contains specifications for reporting of meta-analyses of observational studies in epidemiology. Editors will expect you to follow and cite this checklist. It refers to the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for assessing the quality of non-randomized studies, a method of rating each observational study in your meta-analysis.
PRISMA provides an extension specifically for scoping reviews. The guidance includes a checklist and a statement that includes the checklist and explanation.