Down Syndrome Research and Practice
Standards

Down Syndrome Research and Practice is committed to the highest ethical standards in scientific research. Authors must provide specific information regarding ethical treatment of research participants, patient consent, patient privacy, protocols, authorship, and competing interests.

We recognise the following principles, requirements, guidelines and codes of conduct and recommend that authors, reviewers and editors are familiar with them:

• United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects
• The American Psychological Association's (APA's) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication
• European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) guidelines on the role of medical writers in developing peer-reviewed publications [PDF]
• Council of Science Editors' White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications
• The Committee on Publication Ethics - A code of conduct for editors of biomedical journals