Main text

The main text contains a number of fixed headings that must be in every review. These cannot be modified, but you can add your own subheadings, see Headings.

Each text section can collapsed and expanded individually, see Collapsing and expanding sections.

Paragraphs and line breaks

Text in RevMan is divided into paragraphs that are separated by spacing, but do not have a blank line in between. This means that you should only press the Enter key once to create a new paragraph. The spacing between paragraphs in RevMan cannot be modified.

Generally, you should use paragraphs or one of the list formats. If you need to insert a line break, you can do this with Shift-Enter.

Some types of formatting apply to paragraphs as a whole, while some formatting can be used for individual characters.        

Paragraph formatting

Formatting that can be applied at the paragraph level are bulleted and ordered lists, and indentation, which can be used for creating nested lists (i.e. lists within lists).

To apply list format

  1. Select the text that should be in the list.

  2. Click the Bulleted List or Ordered list button on the toolbar.
    The list format is applied with each paragraph becoming a separate list item.       

You can construct nested lists by using the indent buttons to adjust the level of list items. Note that you cannot indent to more than three levels. 

Character formatting

You can format your text in the published review with bold, italics, underline, superscript and subscript by using the buttons on the  main toolbar.

You can also apply text marker (ie, a yellow highlight) within RevMan, but this formatting will not be published (the highlighted text itself will be published, but without the highlighting). If you click the Sticky Marker button to the right of the text marker, everything you type will be highlighted, until you turn off the Sticky marker again.

Note: formatting such as bold or italics should not be used to signify a sub-heading. The heading paragraph styles must be used for this, see Headings.

You cannot modify the font size of individual characters, but you can change the overall size of the text as it appears in RevMan, see Interface options.

Links

You can insert links to other sections in the review, such as studies, or figures, see Links.

Symbols

See Inserting symbols

Tables

See Tables in main text

Track changes

See Track changes