Resources for journal editors
How and why to endorse SPIRIT 2025 in your journal
A short video explaining what SPIRIT 2025 is, the benefits to your journal of endorsing it, and how your journal can endorse SPIRIT 2025.
How and why to endorse CONSORT 2025 in your journal
A short video explaining what CONSORT 2025 is, the benefits to your journal of endorsing it, and how your journal can endorse CONSORT 2025.
Our suggested text to include in your journal's instructions for authors is as follows:
"[journal name] requires a completed SPIRIT 2025 checklist as a condition of submission when reporting a protocol of a randomised trial, and a completed CONSORT 2025 checklist and flow diagram as a condition of submission when reporting the results of a randomised trial. Templates for these can be found on the SPIRIT–CONSORT website: consort-spirit.org . At a minimum, your article should report the content addressed by each item of the checklist. Meeting these basic reporting requirements will greatly improve the value of your trial report and may enhance its chances for eventual publication."
Examples of editorials explaining and promoting journals' decisions to endorse SPIRIT and CONSORT:
Roberts & Shamseer, 2015, Journal of Neuro-Opthalmology. Transparency, Reproducibility, and Validation: Raising the Quality of Reporting in the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology.
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Blackstone, 2006, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. CONSORT and beyond.