LibGuides: Systematic Reviews: Getting Started

Scoping review or systematic review?

These articles explain the difference between scoping reviews and systematic reviews.

Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach
What you need to know about scoping reviews

FIve steps to conducting a systematic review

Five steps to conducting a systematic review
This paper provides a step-by-step explanation—there are just five steps—of the methods behind reviewing, and the quality elements inherent in each step

Khan KS, Kunz R, Kleijnen J, Antes G. Five steps to conducting a systematic review. . doi: 10.1177/014107680309600304.

Getting started

Gather your team
Develop research questions
Scope review of literature for research on your topic
Develop a protocol - Plan how you will conduct your research before you begin your systematic search. This plan will guide your research efforts, giving them direction, structure and can reduce errors.
Register your review protocol. This will prevent others from accidentally duplicating the same study.
You can register your work at Cochrane Reviews or the international database PROSPERO

Develop a protocol

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - See Chapter 1 Section 1.5

PRISMA-P (Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols 2015)

Statement about the protocol

PRISMA-P Checklist

Using End Note

What is EndNote?

EndNote is reference management software. EndNote allows you to create and organize your references to books, journal articles, conference papers and other publications. You can download references from library catalogs and databases and store full texts of the references in your EndNote library.

EndNote also enables you to create your bibliographies automatically by inserting references from your EndNote library into a Word document. EndNote formats the bibliography for your paper in the reference style that you choose.

For more information see:

Walsh library's guide to EndNote and Zotero
EndNote online training - Includes video tutorials, reference guides and live training sessions
EndNote YouTube channel - shorter videos on single topics

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