Innes C. Cuthill

TL;DR: Most of the papers surveyed did not report using randomisation or blinding to reduce bias in animal selection and outcome assessment, consistent with reviews of many research areas, including clinical studies, published in recent years.

TL;DR: An accurate summary of the background, research objectives, including details of the species or strain of animal used, key methods, principal findings and conclusions of the study is provided.

TL;DR: This article extensively discusses two dimensionless (and thus standardised) classes of effect size statistics: d statistics (standardised mean difference) and r statistics (correlation coefficient), because these can be calculated from almost all study designs and also because their calculations are essential for meta‐analysis.

TL;DR: The following guidelines are excerpted (as permitted under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL), with the knowledge and approval of PLoS Biology and the authors) from Kilkenny et al.

TL;DR: The ARRIVE guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) have been updated and information reorganised to facilitate their use in practice to help ensure that researchers, reviewers, and journal editors are better equipped to improve the rigour and transparency of the scientific process and thus reproducibility.