Licence to Publish Agreement

Before Cambridge can publish a journal article (or any other journal content type) we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article (although the original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged). Find more information about licence to publish agreements here.

Ethics

Upon conditional acceptance for publication in the APSR, authors (particularly those whose work directly engages human participants in the research process) will be expected to

• affirm a set of ethical and/or transparency declarations related to the APSA’s Principles and Guidance for Human Subjects Research

• submit an appendix that explains any exceptions or issues related to the above principles, revised if relevant in light of comments from reviewers and editors, including relevant additional documents, such as but not limited to

• ethics certificates or approvals from all organizations that approved the research and/or
• other research documentation, such as survey instruments, interview guides, or other codebooks; and

• for quantitative research, prepare and deposit in the APSR Dataverse the datasets and code necessary to reproduce all results described in the text and any appendix, including in-text references to tests or statistics, tables, figures, or other illustrations, unless legal, ethical or methodological constraints prevent such data sharing.

The corresponding author will be responsible for preparing these materials and submitting them for archiving in the APSR Dataverse.