title: Transparency in Research involving Animals: The Basel Declaration and new principles for reporting research in BJP manuscripts.
abstract: This article discusses the background to the need for change in the reporting of experiments involving animals, including a report of a consensus meeting organised by the Basel Declaration Society and Understanding Animal Research UK that sought to Internationalise guidelines for reporting experiments involving animals. A commentary on the evolution of BJP's attempts to implement the ARRIVE guidelines and details of our new guidance for authors is published separately (McGrath, 2014). This is one of a series of editorials discussing updates to the BJP Instructions to Authors LINKED EDITORIALS: This Editorial is the first in a series. The other Editorials in this series will be published in the forthcoming issues. To view them, visit: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1476-5381.
authors.affiliation: British Journal of Pharmacology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: McGrath
authors.forename: Elspeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: McLachlan
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zeller
mesh_terms: D032761:Animal Experimentation / Q000592:standards*; D000818:Animals; D030881:Disclosure; D035081:Editorial Policies; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D058028:Research Report / Q000592:standards*; D013557:Switzerland