Checklist

Table of contents

Running an experiment

If you created stimuli, have you described your manipulations?
If you adapted stimuli, have you credited the creators?
For your stimuli, have you provided an accessible file with metadata?
Have you outlined the steps you took while running your experiment so that others may replicate?
Have you applied for ethical approval prior to data collection?
Have you pre-registered your analyses?
Depending on your type of experiment, have you considered a registered report?

Have you removed sensitive data or personal identifiers?
Have you prepped your data files in a commonly-accessible format (preferably CSV)?
Have you documented your column names in a metafile?
Have you explained what the values mean in a metafile?
Have you explained how the data was collected, in a metafile/repo documentation/associated manuscript, in a way that someone else can replicate this procedure?
Have you stored the data in an open and safe (preferably permanent) place?
If publishing data with a paper, have you linked the paper clearly?
Have you included a license for your data? (for information on licensing, see Data Licensing )

Have you included an OSF/Github/repo link in your manuscript?
If you worked with human participants/data, have you explicitly stated whether you had ethics approval?
Have you included the ethics approval code?

Have you checked whether your journal of choice offers open access publication?
Have you checked whether your funder requires a certain level of open access publication?
If you wish to pre-print, does your journal of choice accept previously pre-printed manuscripts?
Have you included an OSF/Github/repo link in your manuscript?