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APA Open Guide

1 Transparency and Openness Statements

To enable readers to quickly and easily find open science disclosures, APA is requiring that authors include a subsection in their paper's Method section titled "Transparency and Openness". In this brief section, authors should disclose relevant details about seven TOP domains: availability of data, availability of code, availability of materials, citation to secondary data/code/materials (including citations of statistical software and packages), reporting standards, preregistration of study designs, and preregistration of analysis plans. The requirements for the information disclosed will depend on whether a journal has endorsed TOP Level 1 or Level 2.

1.1 Example TOP Statement

We report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions, all manipulations, and all measures in the study, and we follow JARS (Kazak, 2018). All data, analysis code, and research materials are available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R, version 4.0.0 (R Core Team, 2022) and the package lme4, version 1.1-27.1 (Bates et al., 2015). This study's design and its analysis were not pre-registered.

1.2 Resources