Publication Guidelines

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): guidelines on good publication practice.

Ethical guidelines to publication of chemical research.

The American Chemical Society serves the chemistry profession and society at large in many ways, among them by publishing journals which present the results of scientific and engineering research. Every editor of a Society journal has the responsibility to establish and maintain guidelines for selecting and accepting papers submitted to that journal. In the main, these guidelines derive from th...

Revised draft guidelines for proteomic data publication.

Dear Colleague: The attached draft is a proposed set of guidelines, drafted by a group of scientists, engineers and bioinformaticians at a recent workshop held in mid May at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris, France, for preparing, reviewing and publishing data, primarily generated from MS/MS experiments, that deals with the identification of proteins and peptides. The purpose of this endeavor w...

Committee on Publication Ethics. The COPE Report 1999. Guidelines on good publication practice.

Why the guidelines were developed COPE was founded in 1997 to address breaches of research and publication ethics. A voluntary body providing a discussion forum and advice for scientific editors, it aims to find practical ways of dealing with the issues, and to develop good practice. We thought it essential to attempt to define best practice in the ethics of scientific publishing. These guideli...

New guidelines for the publication of genetic population data.

In 2000 a new policy concerning the publication of population genetic data was set up in Forensic Science International [1] with the introduction of a new section entitled ‘‘Announcement of population data’’. Subsequently in 2010 [2] a new section on ‘‘Forensic Population Genetics’’ was introduced, and recommendations were redefined. FSI: Genetics is one of the few journals still considering po...