AutoLit® User Guide
Examining Results in Synthesis
Administrative Tools
Support and FAQs
Best Nest Building Practices
SLR Basics: How to Perform Systematic Review
NMA Basics: How to Perform a Meta-Analysis
Best Practices for Writing a Publishable Manuscript
This page describes how to draft and edit Manuscripts in AutoLit. To learn how to view and interpret the Manuscript output in Synthesis, click here.
Note: If Dashboard is toggled on, Manuscript will automatically be toggled off. You can toggle on Manuscript in Settings. Toggling Manuscript back on will not affect any work in Dashboard and vice versa.
Below the “Synthesis” link, find the “Manuscript Editor.”
In the Manuscript Editor, you can type up any free-text findings; you can also insert:
Select “Show Table of Contents” to add a table of contents, which will be automatically generated from the Headers you have created.
At this time, only one person can edit the manuscript at a time. If multiple users make edits, their changes may be overwritten. …Don't worry, we plan to support collaborative editing in the future and you can track. our progress
Manuscript editor saves your work automatically. You can see the last time the Manuscript was saved in the upper right of the page, right next to the “undo” and “redo” buttons:
To insert an updatable table, select the table icon with the plus sign. When the included studies and collected data change, the tables will update accordingly.
This will open a modal where you customize and build your Updatable Table:
To build an Updatable Table, select the Table of, Filters, and Columns you desire. This builder functions in the same way that the Custom Table Export does, so for a full review of how each table type works, see instructions here.
As in the Custom Table Exports, if you wish to change the order of columns presented, simply drag and drop the column pills (see instructions).
The Updatable Table allows bibliographic fields to be added one-by-one; however, if you want to insert all citation data in one click, select “Bibliographic Data” → “Citation” in the modal:
You may also insert your PRISMA diagram directly into the manuscript using the flow chart icon:
Note: only the PRISMA 2020 diagram can be inserted into the manuscript, PRISMA 2009 can be accessed in Synthesis and Dashboard.
To learn how to manage Citations in Manuscript, click here.
When you are done writing, export as a Word document in 1-click.
