Form templates for researchers & labs

Research runs on paperwork the science never mentions: consent, eligibility screening, ethics review, and the forms a lab fills in every day. This page collects formformform templates for principal investigators, lab managers, study coordinators and the graduate students who do most of the actual data entry.

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Most of it is sequenced by an approval nobody in the lab controls. An ethics committee signs off on a protocol, and the consent wording, screening questions and debrief script are part of what was approved — a form is a versioned document, not a draft you tweak between participants.

The rest is grant-cycle work and bench work: budget requests before a submission deadline, equipment loans and calibration bookings, a bird point count typed into a phone at the survey station rather than copied from a soaked notebook that evening.

99 forms researchers & labs actually build

Each one starts from a template you can open and edit. Grouped by the kind of form it is.

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What researchers & labs usually collect

Consent and assent

Research Study Consent Form covers procedure descriptions, withdrawal rights and recording permission. Genetic studies add sample storage and future-use terms; K-12 work needs a parent or guardian consenting alongside the student's own assent.

Eligibility screening

Clinical Trial Screening Form asks the exclusion questions first: HbA1c range, current medications, prior treatment lines, MRI contraindications. Answers decide who gets booked for in-person testing, so most of the length is branching nobody sees.

Bench and field readings

Colony counts per plate, burette readings at the equivalence point, cycle threshold values and band sizes, or GPS coordinates with strike and dip. Field forms carry a photo of the outcrop or the gel alongside the numbers.

Protocol and ethics paperwork

The IRB / Ethics Review Application wants the debriefing script, de-identification status of any secondary dataset, and data transfer terms for multi-country work. Animal protocols add IACUC approval, species justification and the veterinary care plan.

34 templates to start from

How to set one up

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    Open the Research Study Consent Form template and paste in the consent wording your ethics committee approved. The template gives the structure; the text has to be the version on file.

  2. 2

    Add a participant ID field instead of a name field wherever the protocol says the data is de-identified, and keep contact details on a separate recruitment form.

  3. 3

    Use conditional logic on your Clinical Trial Screening Form so exclusion answers close the branch early. A respondent outside the HbA1c range never reaches the questions about prior surgeries.

  4. 4

    Turn on end-to-end encryption for anything carrying health details or genetic sample consent, then share the form by link in the recruitment email or as a QR code on the departmental poster.

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    Export responses as the study runs rather than at the end, or send each submission by webhook into the lab's data pipeline so the analysis script sees new rows the same day.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use this to collect informed consent for a study?

You can build the consent document and record a participant's typed agreement to each clause with checkboxes, recorded against the submission. It is not an e-signature product, and it does not decide anything for your ethics committee — submit the form wording with your protocol and use the version they approve.

Is it HIPAA compliant for clinical research data?

No. There is no HIPAA compliance here, and no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification either. What is true: EU hosting is available, data is encrypted at rest and in transit, the service is GDPR compliant, and forms can be end-to-end encrypted so submissions are only readable in your browser. Check that against your institution's requirements before you collect anything identifiable.

How do I collect photos and scans from participants or field sites?

File Upload is a field type in the editor. A field team can attach the outcrop photo to a Geological Rock Outcrop Mapping Form entry, and a participant can upload a food diary page. On an encrypted form the uploads are stored encrypted and decrypted in your browser when you open the response.

How do I keep participant identifiers out of the response data?

Run two forms. Recruitment and contact details live on one; the study instrument collects only the participant ID you issued. Link them offline in your own key file. If the protocol requires identifiers on the instrument itself — a longitudinal cohort re-contacting people over years — put that form behind end-to-end encryption so the data is unreadable anywhere but your own browser.

Is it free for a graduate student with no grant money?

Yes, during early access — unlimited forms and unlimited responses, which matters when a survey study runs to several hundred participants and you have no line in the budget for software. No response cap means you do not have to stop recruiting because a plan filled up mid-collection.

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