Authorship Criteria

Authorship confers credit and responsibility for a researcher's contributions to a study.

Each author is required to have made significant contributions to the work's idea or design, as well as the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data, the development of new software utilized in the work, and the drafting or substantive revision of the work.

AND to have given final approval to the submitted version (as well as any substantially modified version involving the author's contribution to the research);

AND to have promised to be personally responsible for the author's contributions as well as to guarantee that any questions about the correctness or integrity of any element of the work, even if the author was not personally involved, are thoroughly examined, resolved, and documented in the literature.