This guide will show you how to cite Gorilla in your papers and how to use our logos on your research posters or in conference talks.
If you have a new publication you want to share with us, please fill in our Publications Form. We can then share your publication with other users or on social media.
Citing Gorilla is the easiest way to demonstrate that you have used a validated online research platform. If accurate stimulus or response timing is important for your results, you may also like to cite our timing accuracy paper.
To cite Gorilla in an article or pre-print, please link to the main website. We also recommend stating the date window within which data was collected, so that someone reading the study could cross-reference this with our release notes.
Example Text
We used the Gorilla Experiment Builder (www.gorilla.sc) to create and host our experiment (Anwyl-Irvine, Massonnié, Flitton, Kirkham & Evershed, 2018). Data was collected between 01 Jan 2017 and 15 Jan 2017. Participants were recruited through [Facebook / Prolific / Research Now].
We have also published research validating our platform and timing, which you can add to your bibliography.
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Anwyl-Irvine, A. L., Massonnié, J., Flitton, A., Kirkham, N.Z., & Evershed, J. K. (2020).
Gorilla in our midst: an online behavioural experiment builder
Behavior Research Methods, 52, 388-407,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01237-x
Anwyl-Irvine, A., Dalmaijer, E. S., Hodges, N., & Evershed, J. K. (2021).
Realistic precision and accuracy of online experiment platforms, web browsers, and devices.
Behavior research methods, 53 (4), 1407-1425,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01501-5
Tomczak, J., Gordon, A., Adams, J., Pickering, J. S., Hodges, N., & Evershed, J. K. (2023). What over 1,000,000 participants tell us about online research protocols Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1228365. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1228365
You may also want to consider publishing your protocol to Gorilla Open Materials, our open-access repository, so that people reading your paper can view your protocol.
Once you have published your protocol on Gorilla Open Materials, copy the unique URL from the top-left of your Open Materials page:
You can then include this URL in the Methods section of your paper to allow readers to access your experimental materials. They can then preview your task from a participant's perspective, giving them a clearer understanding of your method, and even clone your task to replicate or build on your work.
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The full experimental protocol can be viewed on Gorilla Open Materials: https://app.gorilla.sc/openmaterials/272953.
The easiest way to show on your poster that you used Gorilla is to add our logo.
Download the Brand Resource Pack
Our brand resource pack contains a range of high-quality Gorilla logos to use in presentations and conference posters:
You will also find a slide that explains what Gorilla is, which can be added to your slide deck:
We love hearing from researchers who have used Gorilla!
Whether you've completed your dissertation, thesis, taken your research to a conference as a poster or a talk, uploaded a pre-print, or had a paper published in a journal - we want to know! Email us, use our Contact Form, or get in touch over social media such as Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
We can include all of the above on our Publications page. You can also tag us @GorillaPsyc in Tweets so we can see your research and retweet it!
