There is not a standard reporting procedure for Systematic Literature Reviews in the social sciences so you may want to check with your supervisor or discipline-specific examples.
There are reporting standards such as PRISMA, which provide checklists and minimum standards for reporting systematic reviews. They help make reviews transparent and reproducible. The PRISMA website provides a checklist of minimum reporting standards and a flow-chart to help document your search and inclusion and exclusion decisions.
PRISMA flow diagram:
A tabular reporting style may look like this:
Whichever reporting method you use, it needs to record the same information in order for the search to be replicable and updateable. It must include:
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