Publish

Make sure you provide the most value to the scientific community by publishing your results in a clear and concise way! The following article aims at giving you an overview over important aspects to consider when publishing behavioural experiments.

If you are planning to conduct experiments in UUBF's facilities, please make sure to carefully read through the important information section on this website.

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Publish your results - Report your findings

1. ARRIVE guidelines

When preparing your data for publication, please refer to the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) guidelines for reporting experiments including animals.

While these guidelines are not thought to be a manual for designing experiments, but rather for reporting your methodology and findings after performing a study, it can nevertheless be of use already before performing experiments.

2. Supplementary information and upload of raw data

In addition to reporting your methodology detailed in accordance with the ARRIVE guideline, consider making your raw data, experimental protocols and analysis available to the scientific community by including it as supplementary material in your publication. In case this is not possible due to constraints from the publisher, consider hosting it on a public webserver or uploading it to a repository.

Alternatively, consider publishing your research on a preprint server such as bioRxiv. Many journals allow posting of manuscripts on preprint servers prior to publication.