Ethics / Format Guide

Ethics in Psychology Research

All research in psychology must follow ethical guidelines. To download forms and read guidelines follow internal link below:

Ethics Intranet Page

Dissertation and Report Format

Dissertations in psychology should follow EITHER the APA Style as indicated in the APA Publication Manual OR the British Psychological Society (BPS) Style Guide*. Below is a link to the BPS guidelines, a template (MS WORD) and a link to how to report statistics properly.

BPS Style Guide

Microsoft Word template**

How to report statistics in a psychology paper or dissertation results section

*students who are using qualitative methods may benefit from the following link and additional guidelines (Links)

**when using this template please be sure to place your tables and figures (with captions) in the main body of text (as opposed to the end of the document, which is a convention for submitting manuscripts to academic journals)


 

Page last updated: Monday 23 May 2011