Introduction
A central resource for users to find easily Nature journals' policies on publishing policies relating to ethics: authorship, plagiarism, fabrication, duplicate publication, competing financial interests, confidentiality and pre-publicity.
Authorship
The Nature journals' authorship policy.
Duplicate publication
The Nature journals' policy on duplicate publication.
Plagiarism and fabrication
The Nature journals' policies on plagiarism and on providing due credit for published and unpublished data.
Image integrity
Nature journals' policies and guidelines on digital images and their manipulation.
Competing financial interests
Nature journals' competing financial interests policies.
Confidentiality and pre-publicity
The Nature journals' policies on confidentiality and pre-publicity. Includes policy on posting preprints and postprints.
The entire guide for Editorial Policies is available in PDF format.