Standards for Writing Review Articles

Studies can be found in two groups of primary and secondary studies. Review articles are the 
most important secondary studies in which the researcher comprehensively surveys published 
articles in a specific field. However, the deep gap between scientific evidence is an undeniable 
fact that is probably caused by the large volume of publications. Reviewing such a wide variety 
of publications would definitely be time-consuming. Therefore, a high-quality review article 
related to a specific question would help improve quality of your research while reducing the 
amount of time spent. Review articles compress a large volume of information to a 
comprehensible format and thus facilitate the advancement of science. Using review article is 
necessary because of bombardment of information, weak studies, inconsistencies in the results of 
studies, loss of time and money, losing time and money, and research needs assessment. This 
review article tried to represent guidelines for types, content, and structure of writing standard 
review articles. According to the available literature, review articles do not have an organized 
structure and are non-uniform. Researchers are recommended to use an appropriate structure 
based on the field of their study.