What Stetleaf will check, and what it won't

We're building Stetleaf, a tool that will check manuscripts against reporting guidelines. Its first version will check selected items of the CONSORT 2025 reporting guideline, plus two general checks: whether the usual section headings, such as Introduction, Methods and Results, are there, and whether each numbered citation in the text matches an entry in the reference list. Each report will list the checks it ran. It won't check theses or dissertations, and it is not peer review.

What it will check

Selected items of the CONSORT 2025 reporting guideline.
Whether the usual section headings, such as Introduction, Methods and Results, are there.
Whether each numbered citation in the text matches an entry in the reference list.

Each report will list the checks it ran.

What it doesn't do

It is not peer review, and it doesn't judge the science, the design or the statistics.
It won't write or change your text.
It won't check theses or dissertations.
If a check isn't listed in your report, it wasn't run.

A flag means a reporting item wasn't found as written; it is not a judgment of the science or a substitute for peer review.

How the checks work

Stetleaf currently checks papers written in English.
United States and Canada. When it opens, Stetleaf will be offered to users in the United States and Canada. Uploads won't be available for accounts whose province chosen at sign-up is Quebec.

Read the guidelines at their source

Stetleaf and Stetleaf Academy are not affiliated with, reviewed by or endorsed by any reporting-guideline group or the EQUATOR Network, or any journal.