Ethics & Psychology: Authorship

This guide seeks to explain some of the details of authorship in scientific publication and offers some advice to graduate students on how to determine who should be author on a paper and negotiate where in the authorship listing their name should be placed. The report also includes an author-determination worksheet that provides a quantitative example for determining authorship and authorship order.

Authors submitting papers to journals published by the American Psychological Society are asked to sign this form stating that their research conformed with the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct

An essay with accompanying case studies by Dr. Sarah Rockwell. Essay gives an overview of some of the main ethical issues faced by peer reviewers.

Put out by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (January 2000) this essay outlines the responsibilities of editors when authors who submitted manuscripts or published in their journals face allegations of misconduct.

This online module developed by Columbia University includes an introductory text, case studies, and an extensive list of further resources on authorship and peer review.