Authorship eligibility and the Author Contributions section

Each listed author must have made substantial contributions to the work and must approve the submitted version.

Who qualifies as an author

To be listed as an author, a person must have made substantial contributions to:

• The conception or design of the work, or
• The acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data, or
• Drafting or revising the manuscript

…AND have approved the submitted version, AND be accountable for the integrity of their part of the work.

People who contributed in other ways (technical help, language editing, funding acquisition only, general supervision) should be named in Acknowledgements with their consent — not listed as authors.

ORCID required

All authors must have an ORCID ID; we verify identities before publication.

Author Contributions section (encouraged)

We encourage, but do not require, an Author Contributions section in your manuscript describing each author's role. A short narrative is sufficient — for example:

K.S. designed the study and wrote the first draft. J.D. collected and analysed the data. A.M. supervised the project and revised the manuscript. All authors approved the final version.

Note: the CRediT taxonomy is not required. A clear, plain-language contributions paragraph using initials is enough. If you already write your CRediT roles for another journal, that's fine too — just include them.

Conflicts of interest

All authors must declare financial and personal conflicts of interest at submission. Full funding sources (with grant numbers) must be reported, as must any funder involvement in study design, data collection, analysis, or manuscript approval.

Authoritative source

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