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ARRIVE 2.0

The 2020 revision of the Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments guidelines, a checklist of items that should be reported in any publication describing animal research, in order to enable assessment and replication.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

  • Is an instance

    An in vivo cancer-biology paper including the full ARRIVE 2.0 Essential 10 checklist as a supplementary file.

  • Is an instance

    A journal's policy requiring authors to attest ARRIVE 2.0 compliance at submission.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

  • Not an instance

    CONSORT (covers human clinical trials, not animal research).

  • Not an instance

    STROBE (observational human studies).

Editorial commentary

ARRIVE 2.0 (Percie du Sert et al., 2020) split the original 21-item checklist into a 10-item 'Essential' core and an 11-item 'Recommended' set. It addresses study design, sample size, randomisation, blinding, statistical methods, and animal husbandry. Many journals require ARRIVE-compliant reporting for in vivo studies.

References

  • Percie du Sert et al., 'The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0' (PLOS Biology, 2020).

Also known as

ARRIVE 2020 · ARRIVE Essential 10

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