Psychology

Reporting standards are a way of showing your work. Psychology scholars adhere to reporting standards to help make their research more reproducible. When publishing original research in a journal article, it's important to report the goals, hypotheses, and detailed methods of a study so that others can evaluate the rigor of those methods and try to replicate its findings. Learn more about what should be reported in a journal article using the resources below.

Read these three documents for the full journal article reporting standards for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research.

• Kazak, A. E. (2018). Editorial: Journal article reporting standards. American Psychologist, 73(1), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000263
• Appelbaum, M., Cooper, H., Kline, R. B., Mayo-Wilson, E., Nezu, A. M., & Rao, S. M. (2018). Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report. American Psychologist, 73(1), 3–25. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000191
• Levitt, H. M., Bamberg, M., Creswell, J. W., Frost, D. M., Josselson, R., & Suárez-Orozco, C. (2018). Journal article reporting standards for qualitative primary, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report. American Psychologist, 73(1), 26–46. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000151

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