“Editorial [EJP Editorial on Registered Reports]”, 1975 (; backlinks; similar):
This copy represents our first ‘real’ issue of the European Journal of Parapsychology.
As far as experimental articles are concerned, we would like to ask potential contributors to try and adhere to the publishing policy which we have outlined in the editorial of the demonstration copy, and which is also discussed at some length in the article: ‘Models of Bias and Control of Bias’ [1975a], in this issue.
In short we shall try to avoid selective reporting and yet at the same time we shall try to refrain from making our journal a graveyard for all those studies which did not ‘turn out’.
These objectives may be fulfilled by the editorial rule of basing our judgment entirely on our impressions of the quality of the design and methodology of the planned study. The acceptance or rejection of a manuscript should if possible take place prior to the carrying out and the evaluation of the results of the study.