Research Data Policy

The journal supports open, transparent and reproducible research.

What authors should do

• Include a Data availability statement in every article. It says where the data can be found, or why it cannot be shared (for example because of privacy or consent).
• Where it is ethical and legal, deposit the data, questionnaires, code and other materials in a trusted public repository such as Zenodo, OSF or an institutional repository, and cite the dataset with its DOI.
• Cite data and software in the reference list like any other source.
• Share data about people only in anonymised form and only if participants consented to this.

Supplementary files

Authors may upload supplementary files with their manuscript; they are published with the article under the same licence unless stated otherwise.

Editors’ requests

Editors and reviewers may ask authors for the underlying data when a concern arises. Refusal to provide data without a good reason can lead to rejection of the manuscript.

Integrity

Data must be authentic. Fabrication, falsification and selective reporting of data are research misconduct (see the Research Misconduct Policy).