Authorship

Authorship

The corresponding author should provide the contributions of the co-authors using Credit roles, which includes their contribution in conceptualization, investigation, methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, resources, drafting of original manuscript, manuscript revision and editing, reviewing, acquisition of funding, project administration, supervision, data curation, and final manuscript approval. All the roles may not be applicable to all manuscripts, and authors may have multiple roles in the manuscript.

The following are the journal’s criteria for authorship and for an individual to be granted authorship, he/she must fulfil all of the below stated criteria:

1. The individual must have been involved in the conceptualization of the study, or execution of experiments, or data analysis and interpretation of the data.
2. Manuscript drafting and revision
3. Final approval of manuscript for submission

Changes to the authorship

Authors are advised to carefully consider the list and the order of the authors before submitting the manuscript to the journal. If authors feel that they need to make any addition, deletion or changes in the order of authors, they must do it before the manuscript is accepted by the journal and only if approved by the editors. For any change in the authorship, the corresponding author must communicate the following to the journal:

1. Reason for the change in authorship.
2. Written confirmation (via email or letter) from all authors that they all agree to the change/s.
3. Written approval from the author (via email or letter) whose name is to be added, deleted or rearranged in the author order.

In case of any authorship disputes the matter will be resolved by the Editors of the journal in consultation with the Institution of the corresponding author.