About figures

You can include two types of figures in a review:

All figures are consistently named ‘Figure [number]’. You cannot edit the names of figures, but you can add descriptive text in their captions. You can change the order of figures and renumber them to ensure a unbroken series of numbers, see Ordering and renumbering figures.

Publication of figures

A figure must be linked in the text for it to be published.

You can select the most important forest plots and funnel plots to be displayed more prominently as figures within the published review. Advice on how to choose the figures to be emphasized in this way will be available in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions.

In addition to the figures you include, the forest plots of all analyses will be made available in a separate section of the published review. The settings you have specified will be used to display these.