Guidelines
Other than the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Download PDF, 298 kb) and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers, COPE has written guidelines on the following:
Guidelines for retracting articles
The COPE guidelines on retraction, issued 1 December 2009, can be downloaded here. Download PDF (120 kb). © 2009 COPE. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A Short Guide to Ethical Editing for New Editors
By Margaret Rees
Becoming an editor of a journal is an exciting but daunting task especially if you are working alone without day to day contact with editorial colleagues. This short guide aims to summarize key issues and to provide links to relevant pages of the COPE website as well as those of other organisations.
Guidelines for the Board of Directors of Learned Society Journals
Guidance for Editors: Research, Audit and Service Evaluations
Regulations regarding what type of study requires ethical approval vary worldwide. This may lead to editors receiving submissions that do not meet the journal’s normal requirement for ethical approval. This guidance has therefore been produced by COPE as an aid to journal editorial teams who are required to review such manuscripts. Download PDF ( 59 kb)
Guidance for Editors: Research, Audit and Service Evaluations
How to handle authorship disputes:a guide for new researchers
By Tim Albert and Liz Wager
This document aims to help new researchers prevent and resolve authorship problems.
In particular it provides:
- suggestions for good authorship practice that should reduce the incidence of such dilemmas,
- advice on what to do when authorship problems do arise, and
- a glossary of key concepts in authorship, with some reading lists and websites for those who wish to take this further.