Editors: Sally Green and Julian PT Higgins.
This chapter should be cited as: Green S, Higgins JPT (editors). Chapter 2: Preparing a Cochrane review. In: Higgins JPT, Green S (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0 (updated March 2011). The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011. Available from www.handbook.cochrane.org.
Contributing authors (since Mar 2005): Ginny Brunton, Sally Green, Julian Higgins, Monica Kjeldstrøm, Nicki Jackson and Sandy Oliver.
Acknowledgements: This section builds on earlier versions of the Handbook. For details of previous authors and editors of the Handbook, see Chapter 1 (Section 1.4). We thank Chris Cates, Carol Lefebvre, Philippa Middleton, Denise O’Connor and Lesley Stewart for comments on drafts since March 2005.