Latest changes

  • Website addresses and links
    Description of the change: Updated RevMan Web to RevMan.
    Added note about URLs in references.
    Updated web address example for Cochrane Review Group from Heart to Acute Respiratory Infections.
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  • Grammar, punctuation and writing style
    Description of the change: Heading 'Tenses' removed.
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  • Character formatting (typography)
    Description of the change: Removed advice that GRADE levels of evidence should be italicised.
    Changed link from Virus names to Organism names
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  • Author details
    Description of the change: Adjusted 'Cochrane Review' to 'Cochrane review'.
    Updated introductory paragraph (authors update own details in Cochrane Account, removed details of phone/fax numbers).
    Removed phone/fax details in table and related footnote.
    Added a table with information about citation/byline.
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  • Search methods
    Description of the change: Citing databases and study registers:
    1. second paragraph adjusted to reflect situation after closure of UK CRGs;
    2. fourth paragraph, text relating to description of searching activities in the Abstract adjusted to reflect current requirements.
    3. Dates changed in bulleted list (2015 to 2023).
    4. Text added about search strategy supplementary material in FRF.
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  • Abstracts
    Description of the change: Adjusted 'Cochrane Review' to 'Cochrane review'.
    Removed information about MECIR.
    Added information about focused review format.
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  • Headings
    Description of the change: Adjusted 'Cochrane Review' to 'Cochrane review'.

    Adjusted 'RevMan Web' to 'RevMan'.
    Text updated for focused review format.
    Table deleted and new figure for heading levels added.
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  • Cochrane review: content, structure, and format
    Description of the change: Adjusted 'Cochrane Review' to 'Cochrane review'.
    Information about focused review format added and links to resources added.
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  • Cochrane Style Manual 2.0
    Description of the change: Link changed from Style Basics to Style Essentials.
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  • Plain language summaries
    Description of the change: Text updated.
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