Authorship and contribution to the publication

AUTHORITY.

We follow four criteria:

Substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or collection, analysis or interpretation of data for the work;

Composition of the work or critical revision of the work for important intellectual content;

Final approval of the version to be published;

Agreeing to be responsible for all aspects of the work in ensuring that issues related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are adequately investigated and resolved.

In addition to being responsible for the parts of the work that he or she performed, the author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should be assured of the integrity of their co-authors' contributions. We include only one corresponding author in each article. Any additional information about contributions (e.g., equal contributions) should be included in the "Contributors" or "Acknowledgement" sections at the end of the article. Our journal requires that all individuals designated as authors meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet these four criteria must be identified as authors.

We recognise only individuals as authors. These authorship criteria are intended to preserve authorship status for those who are commendable and can take credit for the work. These criteria are not intended to be used as a means of disqualifying peers who otherwise meet the authorship criteria by denying them the ability to meet criteria #2 or #3. Therefore, all individuals meeting the first criterion should have the opportunity to participate in the review, drafting, and final approval of the manuscript. The person conducting the work is responsible for determining who meets these criteria and should ideally do so when planning the work, making appropriate changes as the work progresses. The corresponding author assumes primary responsibility for liaising with the journal during the manuscript submission, review, and publication process and typically ensures that all journal administrative requirements, such as providing authorship information, ethics committee approval, clinical trial registration documentation, and collection of conflict of interest forms and statements, are properly completed, although these responsibilities may be delegated to one or more co-authors.

When a large multi-author group has conducted the work, ideally the group should decide who the authors will be before the work begins and confirm who the authors are before submitting the manuscript for publication. All team members named as authors must meet all four criteria for authorship, including approval of the final manuscript, and they must be able to take public responsibility for the work and must have full confidence in the accuracy and integrity of the work of the other authors in the group. In addition, as individuals, they are expected to complete conflict of interest disclosure forms. In the journal, we want authors to assure us that all authors included in the article meet the criteria for authorship.

In addition, we want to be sure that there is no one who meets the criteria but has not been included as an author. When we encounter disagreements between authors, we follow the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)-see. Here and here.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Our journal lists contributors in two ways. Firstly, we publish a list of authors' names at the beginning of the paper and secondly, we list contributors (some of whom may not be included as authors) at the end of the paper, giving details of who did what in planning, conducting and reporting the work. This is a good place to include contributions from patients or members of the public who helped as research volunteers, giving their names and specific roles.

We encourage authors to fully recognise patient and public contributions to their research where appropriate. One or more of these authors are listed as guarantors of the document. The guarantor assumes full responsibility for the work and/or conduct of the study, had access to the data, and controlled the decision to publish. Contribution and sponsorship are concepts that were first applied to original research papers and are sometimes difficult to define for other papers.

Each contribution statement should clearly state who and what contributed to the planning, execution and reporting of the work described in the article, and should identify one or sometimes more contributors responsible for the overall content as guarantor(s). For articles in our journal that do not report original research, such as editorials, literature reviews, and education and discussion, please indicate who had the idea for the article,