['To describe the development and application of logic model templates for systematic reviews and health technology assessments (HTAs) of complex interventions.', 'This study demonstrates the development of a method to conceptualize complexity and make underlying assumptions transparent. Examples from systematic reviews with specific relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) illustrate its usefulness.', 'Two distinct templates are presented: the system-based logic model, describing the system in which the interaction between participants, intervention, and context takes place; and the process-orientated logic model, which displays the processes and causal pathways that lead from the intervention to multiple outcomes.'] Do logic models help make sense of complexity in systematic reviews and health technology assessments?