Sources

Stetleaf Academy lessons paraphrase reporting guidance for teaching. They do not reproduce checklist item text from the guidelines. For the full guideline — including any checklist, flow diagram, or explanation-and-elaboration paper — go to the publisher or the EQUATOR Network library. Always follow your target journal's instructions.

Each wave-1 lesson lists its own sources on the lesson page. This page is a high-level map of the main guideline families those lessons point to. It is not a complete bibliography.

Stetleaf and Stetleaf Academy are not affiliated with, reviewed by or endorsed by any reporting-guideline group or the EQUATOR Network, or any journal. Guideline and organization names are used only to identify what the lessons teach about.

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Main sources used in the wave-1 lessons

EQUATOR Network

Library of reporting guidelines: https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/
EQUATOR home: https://www.equator-network.org/

Used across several lessons as the place to find guidelines by study design. Citing EQUATOR is not a substitute for citing the guideline statement itself.

CONSORT 2025 (randomized-trial reports)

Statement: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-081123
Explanation and elaboration: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-081124
CONSORT and SPIRIT site (linked from a wave-1 lesson): https://www.consort-spirit.org/

See the lesson: CONSORT 2025: an overview for trial authors.

SPIRIT 2025 (randomized-trial protocols)

Statement: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-081477

Named in several wave-1 lessons alongside CONSORT.

STROBE (observational studies)

Statement: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040296
Explanation and elaboration: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040297
STROBE site (linked from a wave-1 lesson): https://www.strobe-statement.org/

See the lesson: STROBE for observational studies.

RECORD (routinely collected health data)

Statement: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001885

Discussed with STROBE in wave-1 lessons that cover observational studies using routine data.

PRISMA 2020 (systematic reviews)

Statement: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n71
Explanation and elaboration: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n160
PRISMA site (linked from a wave-1 lesson): https://www.prisma-statement.org/

See the lesson: PRISMA 2020: reporting a systematic review and its flow.

CARE (case reports)

CARE site (linked from a wave-1 lesson): https://www.care-statement.org/
Statement DOI cited in a wave-1 lesson: https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-7-223

Other guidelines named in wave-1 lessons

These appear in lesson text or references. Use each lesson's own reference list for the citation you need:

STARD 2015 (diagnostic accuracy) — DOI in lesson references: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h5527
TRIPOD+AI (prediction models) — DOI in lesson references: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-078378
SRQR and COREQ (qualitative research) — DOIs in lesson references
SQUIRE 2.0 (quality improvement) — DOI in lesson references
TIDieR (intervention description) — DOI in lesson references
SAGER (sex and gender reporting) and SAMPL (statistical reporting) — named as cross-cutting guidance in How to choose a reporting guideline; there is no separate Stetleaf Academy lesson for them in this wave

ICMJE Recommendations

https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/

Used in lessons on IMRaD structure and peer review.

COPE (peer reviewers)

Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers

See the lesson: How to write a constructive peer review.

Wave-1 Academy lessons

For the full citation list for each topic, open the lesson: