This policy revises previous policy and guidelines regarding the inclusion of children in research.
Changes to the policy include (1) the applicability of the policy to individuals of all ages, (2)
clarification of potentially acceptable reasons for excluding participants on age, and
(3) a requirement to provide data on participant age at enrollment in progress reports.
The group you identify to engage should also be made of people who recently made a purchase or purposefully decided not to make one. Here are some more guidelines and tips to help you get the right participants for your research.
Once study participants are selected, it's important to communicate effectively and provide important, logistical information in a consistent, professional manner. The following templates are available to easily adjust location, contact information, maps, etc. for each study.
A meeting agenda helps you and your colleagues prepare for a meeting and guide yourselves through the items you need to discuss. Time spent in planning an agenda will likely save time for all meeting participants by providing a clear set of topics, objectives, and time frames. Some meetings may require more planning time than others. For example, a department-wide retreat will probably involve several hours of planning by several people, while a weekly staff meeting could be planned by one person in a shorter amount of time.
Article: These are original research manuscripts. The work should report scientifically sound experiments and provide a substantial amount of new information. The article should include the most recent and relevant references in the field. The structure should include an Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions (optional) sections, with a suggested minimum word count of 4000 words. Please refer to the journal webpages for specific instructions and templates.
Systematic Review: Systematic review articles present a detailed investigation of previous research on a given topic that use clearly defined search parameters and methods to identify, categorize, analyze, and report aggregated evidence on a specific topic. The structure is similar to a review, with a suggested minimum word count of 4000 words; however, they should include a Methods section.
Systematic reviews should strictly follow the PRISMA checklist ( -statement.org/PRISMAStatement/Checklist) and include a completed PRISMA flow diagram as part of the main text or Supplementary Materials. Templates for the flow diagram can be downloaded from the PRISMA website. We strongly encourage authors to register their detailed protocols before data extraction commences, in a public registry such as PROSPERO ( ). Authors must include a statement about following the PRISMA guidelines and registration information (if available) in the Methods section.
Scientific Reports publishes original research in two formats: Article and Registered Report. For Registered Reports, see section below. In most cases, we do not impose strict limits on word count or page number. However, we strongly recommend that you write concisely and stick to the following guidelines:
The following templates can be used for projects reviewed at the exempt level. However, please note that the IRB may request a different template based on the complexity of the research to ensure participant understanding during the consent process.
Any beneficiary can contribute to the narrative part, download the word version of the Part B template from the grant management system, complete it and upload it as a pdf document under the Report Core tab.
You can also use templates from earlier versions of Office in 2013 and 2016 by saving the files to the Custom Office Templates folder. If you are working in an older version of Office, use this guide for templates in Word 2003.
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