Experimental protocols are key when planning, performing and publishing research in many
disciplines, especially in relation to the reporting of materials and methods. However, they
vary in their content, structure and associated data elements. This article presents a
guideline for describing key content for reporting experimental protocols in the domain of life
sciences, together with the methodology followed in order to develop such guideline. As part
of our work, we propose a checklist that contains 17 data elements that we consider …