Guidelines

Other than the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers , COPE has written guidelines on the following:

General guidelines

Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

COPE is just one of a number of organisations that is seeing a large rise in applications for membership from new journals. Although we very much want to encourage and support legitimate new journals, we are also mindful that many new journals are not currently sufficiently transparent about their business practices and authors in particular may be unable to judge the legitimacy of these journals. Together with OASPA, DOAJ, and WAME we have therefore compiled a minimum set of criteria that journals will be assessed against  when they apply for membership at one of our organisations.  The full criteria can be seen here and we welcome feedback. We encourage authors and anyone else who is unfamiliar with a journal to use these criteria in assessing a journal. 

Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases: guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Guidelines for retracting articles

Guidelines for the Board of Directors of Learned Society Journals

Guidelines for editors

Sharing of Information Among Editors-in-Chief Regarding Possible Misconduct

Text recycling guidelines for editors

A Short Guide to Ethical Editing for New Editors

Guidance for Editors: Research, Audit and Service Evaluations

Guidelines for peer reviewers

COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers

Guidelines for authors

How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers