Publishing a literature review Over the course or the past year, I've become very familiar with a specific topic through a careful and systematic review of the background and state-of-the-art. 

I think this could make for a nice publication, providing readers in similar fields with a handy resource and increasing my academic profile to boot. 

However, I want to make sure that the lit review I performed is scientifically sound - so it must be transparent and replicable. 

Do you know of any guidelines, best practices, or great examples to guide me as I get working?
While it is not specifically for general literature reviews, but more aimed at systematic reviews and meta-analysis, the PRISMA Statement is widely used in the biomedical literature, and even comes with checklists to make sure a manuscript has a few key elements, such as:

"Present full electronic search strategy for at least one database, including any limits used, such that it could be repeated."

Which is something that's pretty necessary for repeatability - you will often find for systematic reviews that an appendix is included with the actual queries used, what dates, etc. In a more general sense, that's what I'd look toward: "Does my review follow most of the guidelines for presenting a meta-analysis, even if it doesn't bother with summary estimates?" If you do that, you're likely on pretty solid ground.