How to write and publish a scientific paper - Barbara Gastel, Robert A. Day 2022

Ethics as a foundation
Ethics in scientific publishing
Some preliminaries

[A]ll scientists have an unwritten contract with their contemporaries and those whose work will follow to provide observations honestly obtained, recorded, and published.

—CBE Style Manual Committee

Ethics as a foundation

Before writing a scientific paper and submitting it to a journal—and indeed, before embarking on your research—you should know the basic ethical norms for scientific conduct and scientific publishing. Some of these norms may be obvious, others not. Therefore, a basic overview is provided in this chapter. Graduate students and others seeking further information on ethics in scientific publishing, and more broadly in science, may do well to consult On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research (Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy 2009) and Doing Global Science: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in the Global Research Enterprise (Interacademy Partnership 2016), which contain both guidance and case studies. Other resources include ethics chapters in style manuals in the sciences.