Authorship criteria
Reference for authorship criteria from Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) citing guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Any coauthor must have contributed to the conception, design, analysis and/or interpretation of data.
Acquisition of funding or provision of technical services or materials are not in themselves sufficient contributions to justify authorship.
Authorship credit should be based on a person having made "substantial, direct, intellectual contribution to the work" meeting four main criteria:
- ___ conception or design
___ data acquisition, analysis, or interpretation
(complete at least 1 of the above)
2. ___ drafting of the paper
____reviewing it critically
(complete at least 1 of the above)
3. ____final approval of the version to be published
4. ___ agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Each author should be accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done. In addition, each author should be able to identify which coauthors are responsible for specific other parts of the work and should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of any coauthors.
One author should take primary responsibility for the work as a whole even if he or she does not have an in-depth understanding of every part of the work. This primary author should assure that all authors meet basic standards for authorship. All authors should approve a concise, written description listing every author's contributions to the work.
Anyone whose contributions do not meet all four criteria should be listed instead in an acknowledgment section