Want to use the Study Reporting Tool to guide your study design, evaluate your own manuscript, or conduct a peer-review?
You’re in the right place! You can download Excel or PDF versions of the SRT on this page. The image below shows a preview of the SRT. In the downloadable versions (available via links above the image), you can use the Scoring dropdown menus to assign color/numeric scores and use the Rationale column to explain your selection. The Excel file also has a tab in which you can easily plot scores from multiple reviewers.
Download the SRT as an Excel file
Note: The Excel file includes the SRT, a plotting functionality to easily view scores from multiple reviewers, and a table that explains the scoring levels.
Download the SRT as a PDF file
Note: The scoring drop-down colors will not work when viewing the PDF in an Internet browser or in Mac Preview – please use a PDF application such as Adobe.
Please take a few minutes to respond to the SRT Use Survey! Your responses will inform our understanding of how the community is using the SRT, and contribute to efforts to improve the tool.
How to cite when using the SRT:
Relevant citations:
Peter, K.T., et al. “Nontargeted Analysis Study Reporting Tool: A Framework to Improve Research Transparency and Reproducibility.” Analytical Chemistry 93, 41 (2021): 13870-13879. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02621
BP4NTA (2022): NTA Study Reporting Tool (PDF). figshare. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19763482
BP4NTA (2022): NTA Study Reporting Tool (Excel). figshare. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19763503
As a manuscript author: If the SRT was used during manuscript preparation, please describe its use in the Methods section of your manuscript and cite both the Peter et al. manuscript and the SRT itself (PDF or Excel).
Template Language: The NTA Study Reporting Tool (SRT) was used in the preparation of this manuscript (Peter et al., 2021; 10.6084/m9.figshare.19763482 [PDF] or 10.6084/m9.figshare.19763503 [Excel]).
As a journal editor or manuscript reviewer: If the SRT was used during manuscript review, please encourage manuscript authors to acknowledge its use by including the DOIs in the Acknowledgements section of their manuscript. Optional template language to use in your reviewer comments is provided below. The filled SRT is an anonymized file and can be attached to your reviewer comments and provided to authors directly.
Template Language: The NTA Study Reporting Tool (SRT) was used in the review of this manuscript and is attached to my reviewer comments. More information on the SRT can be found at www.nontargetedanalysis.org/SRT. To enable future assessment of its impact on NTA reporting, please acknowledge its use in theAcknowledgements section of your manuscript: “The NTA Study Reporting Tool (SRT) was used during peer review to document and improve the reporting and transparency of this study (10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02621; 10.6084/m9.figshare.19763482 [PDF] or 10.6084/m9.figshare.19763503 [Excel]).”
Need help understanding the scoring levels?
Refer to the Score Explanation Table provided below! This table is also provided as a tab in the SRT Excel file.
Interested in detailed reference content about designing, conducting, and evaluating NTA studies? Not sure what a term means?
Head over to the Reference Content page, where information is organized by the same Section, Category, and Sub-category structure as the SRT, or visit the Glossary for a list of definitions.
[Reproduced from Peter et al., Analytical Chemistry 2021; DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02621]
[Reproduced from Peter et al., Analytical Chemistry 2021; DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02621]
Previous Versions of the SRT
Version 3 (current) available by the links above.
Version 2 (Excel): https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/NTA_Study_Reporting_Tool_Excel_/19763503/2
Version 2 (PDF): https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/NTA_Study_Reporting_Tool_PDF_/19763482/2
Version 1 (Excel): https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/NTA_Study_Reporting_Tool_Excel_/19763503/1
Version 1 (PDF): https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/NTA_Study_Reporting_Tool_PDF_/19763482/1
Comments about the SRT? Suggestions to improve the tool? We would love your feedback!
A sub-committee of BP4NTA members will meet periodically to review feedback from comments posted here, evaluate advances in the literature, and implement any necessary updates to the SRT.
in the .pdf version of the tool, the drop down box for the “Chromatography” sub-category is empty.
Thanks, Jon! The .pdf version has been updated to fix the glitch with the Chromatography drop-down menu. The PDF is now named “NTA_SRT_V1a”. Happy SRT-ing!