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The ARRIVE Guidelines 2.0: updated guidelines for reporting animal research

Reporting guideline provided for?
(i.e. exactly what the authors state in the paper)
Reporting any area of bioscience research using laboratory animals
Full bibliographic reference Percie du Sert N, Hurst V, Ahluwalia A, Alam S, Avey MT, Baker M, Browne WJ, Clark A, Cuthill IC, Dirnagl U, Emerson M, Garner P, Holgate ST, Howells DW, Karp NA, Lazic SE, Lidster K, MacCallum CJ, Macleod M, Pearl EJ, Petersen O, Rawle F, Peynolds P, Rooney K, Sena ES, Silberberg SD, Steckler T and Wurbel H. The ARRIVE Guidelines 2.0: updated guidelines for reporting animal research.

This guideline was published simultaneously in 7 journals. You can read the guideline in any of these journals using the links below.

PLoS Biol. 2020;18(7):e3000411. PMID: 32663219
BMC Vet Res. 2020;16(1):242. PMID: 32660541
BMJ Open Science. 2020;4:e100115 (PDF).
Br J Pharmacol. 2020. PMID: 32662519
Exp Physiol. 2020. PMID: 32666546
J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2020. PMID: 32663096
J Physiol. 2020. PMID: 32666574

 
Language English
Relevant URLs
(full-text if available)
Full text PDF documents of the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) guidelines 2.0, ARRIVE 2.0 explanation and elaboration, and ARRIVE 2.0 checklists are available at https://www.arriveguidelines.org/resources

 
Explanation and elaboration papers
Percie du Sert N, Ahluwalia A, Alam S, Avey MT, Baker M, Browne WJ, Clark A, Cuthill IC, Dirnagl U, Emerson M, Garner P, Holgate ST, Howells DW, Hurst V, Karp NA, Lazic SE, Lidster K, MacCallum CJ, Macleod M, Pearl EJ, Petersen O, Rawle F, Peynolds P, Rooney K, Sena ES, Silberberg SD, Steckler T and Wurbel H. Reporting animal research: Explanation and Elaboration for the ARRIVE guidelines 2.0. PLoS Biol. 2020;18(7):e3000411. PMID: 32663221

 
Availability in additional languages The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0 have been translated into the following languages: French; German; Chinese. These are available at https://www.arriveguidelines.org/resources

Translations of the original ARRIVE guidelines (published in 2010) are also available in: Italian; Japanese; Korean; Portuguese; Brazilian Portuguese; Spanish. These are also available at https://www.arriveguidelines.org/resources

 
Reporting guideline website URL https://www.arriveguidelines.org
Reporting guideline acronym ARRIVE
Study design Animal pre-clinical research
Applies to the whole report or to individual sections of the report? Whole report
Previous versions of this guideline / Guideline history The ARRIVE reporting guideline was originally published in 2010.

The guideline was published simultaneously in 4 journals. You can read the 2010 guideline in any of these journals using the links below.

Kilkenny C, Browne WJ, Cuthill IC, Emerson M, Altman DG. Improving bioscience research reporting: the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal research.

PLoS Biol. 2010;8(6):e1000412. PMID: 20613859
Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2012;20(4):256-260. PMID: 22424462
Vet Clin Pathol. 2012;41(1):27-31. PMID: 22390425
J Pharmacol Pharmacother. 2010;1(2):94-99. PMID: 21350617

 
Other An online fillable ARRIVE 2.0 checklist is also available via the GoodReports website at https://www.goodreports.org/reporting-checklists/arrive2/.

 
Record last updated on March 6, 2023

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