Dear All, The RAMESES Publication standards for realist syntheses and meta-narrative reviews have (at last) been published. RAMESES publication standards: realist syntheses BMC Medicine 2013, 11:21 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/21 and RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews BMC Medicine 2013, 11:20 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/20 These papers have also been simultaneously published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing. Wong G., Greenhalgh T. , Westhorp G., Buckingham J . & Pawson R. (2013) RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews. Journal of Advanced Nursing ,doi: 10.1111/jan.12092. Wong G., Greenhalgh T. , Westhorp G., Buckingham J . & Pawson R. (2013) RAMESES publication standards: realist syntheses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, doi: 10.1111/jan.12095 Thanks to all who have helped us with these!! Geoff