Overview

This guide is for editors, reviewers, and authors of APA submissions, to help them understand APA initiatives for open and transparent research, such as the TOP guidelines. The guiding principle is improving scientific rigour and increasing the transparency and accessibility of research; adjust any of the guidance for specific topics or circumstances in the service of those goals.

The guide is in draft form. We are starting with guidance for editors and authors. We will be adding guidance for reviewers soon. We welcome feedback and suggestions for further guidance.

0.1 TOP Guidelines

• APA Transparency and Openness Promotion
• COS TOP Guidelines
• OSF TOP Resources

0.2 Getting Started with Open Science

• An open science workflow for more credible, rigorous research (Corker, 2021)

• Seven easy steps to open science (Crüwell et al., 2019)

• Easing into open science: A guide for graduate students and their advisors (Kathawalla et al., 2021)

• A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms (Parsons et al., 2022)

• Spellman, B. A., Gilbert, E. A., & Corker, K. S. (2018). Open science. In E. J. Wagenmakers (Volume Ed.) & J. T. Wixted (Series Ed.) Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Volume 5: Methodology (4th ed.). Preprint at https://osf.io/gv6r4/