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Guidelines On Good Publication Practices

This document has been adapted from the COPE Actions
(Committee on Publication Ethics) Report 1999.
The Editorial Team hope that they will be dissemi- • All sources and methods used to obtain and analyse
nated widely, endorsed by the editor, and refined data, including any pre-processing, should be fully
by those who use them. disclosed; detailed explanations should be provided
for any exclusions.
• Methods of analysis must be explained in detail, and
Study design and ethical approval referenced.
• The discussion section of a paper should mention
Good research should be well justified, well any issues of bias which have been considered, and
planned, appropriately designed, and ethically explain how they have been dealt with in the design
approved. To conduct research to a lower standard and interpretation of the study.
may constitute misconduct

Action Authorship

• The research should be driven by protocol; pilot There is no universally agreed definition of author-
studies should have a written rationale. ship, although attempts have been made. As a
• Research protocols should seek to answer specific minimum, authors should take responsibility for a
questions, rather than just collect data. particular section of the study.
• Protocols must be carefully agreed by all contribu-
tors and collaborators, including, if appropriate, the
participants. Actions
• The final protocol should form part of the research
record. • The award of authorship should balance intelectual
• Early agreement on the precise roles of the contribu- contributions to the conception, design, analysis
tors and collaborators, and on matters of authorship and writing of the study against the collection of
and publication, is advised. data and other routine work. If there is no task that
• Statistical issues should be considered early in study can reasonably be attributed to a particular indivi-
design, including calculations, to ensure there are dual, then that individual should not be credited
neither too few nor too many participants. with authorship.
• Formal and documented ethical approval from an • To avoid disputes over attribution of academic cre-
appropriately constituted research ethics committee dit, it is helpful to decide early on in the planning of
is required for all studies involving people. a research project who will be credited as authors,
as contributors, and who will be acknowledged.
• All authors must take public responsibility for the
Data Analysis content of their paper. The multidisciplinary nature
of much research can make this difficult, but this
Data should be appropriately analysed, but ina- can be resolved by the disclosure of individual
ppropriate analysis does not necessarily amount contributions.
to misconduct. Fabrication and falsification of data
do constitute misconduct.

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