Writers in the fields of social and behavioral sciences are expected to follow within their professional disciplines’ ethical and legal principles. According to the APA (2020), these principles aim to achieve the goals of “ensuring the accuracy of scientific findings, protecting the rights and welfare of research participants and subjects, and protecting intellectual property rights” (p. 11).
Key Points:
- Ethical compliance
- Errors, correction, and retraction after publication
- Duplicate publication
- APA Code of Ethics
- Informed consent, HIPAA, conflict of interest
- Publication credit
- Order of authors
References
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/000016S-000
