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The author of a work is the person who has been involved in all aspects of the creation of the work including research, design, analysis, and final presentation of the work. A contributor: is a person who may have provided purely technical help or writing assistance.
What should the authors information contain?
It should indicate the general scope of the article and state the main results and conclusions. It should be complete by itself, and must not contain footnotes or references or unexplained abbreviations.
A co-author is any person who has made a significant contribution to a journal article. They also share responsibility and accountability for the results. This person will handle all correspondence about the article and sign the publishing agreement on behalf of all the authors.
What makes the author’s information and trustworthy?
Credible sources are written by authors respected in their fields of study. Responsible, credible authors will cite their sources so that you can check the accuracy of and support for what they’ve written. (This is also a good way to find more sources for your own research.)
What makes a book credible?
An author of a scholarly (or academic) article will usually include his/her credentials or affiliations. Google Scholar provides a feature that will tell you how often the article has been cited by others (a high number of citations is a good indicator that the author is credible).
What to do when an author makes a contribution?
If an author has made a contribution that is not covered by the five pre-defined contribution types, then please choose ‘Other contribution’ and provide a one-sentence statement summarizing the author’s contribution. Manuscript title: Enter manuscript title Author 1: Enter author name Conceived and designed the analysis Collected the data
The Authors’ Contributions section specifies the exact contributions of each author in a narrative form.
How to specify the name of the author?
Specify contribution in more detail (required; no more than one sentence) Author 7: Enter author name Conceived and designed the analysis Collected the data Contributed data or analysis tools Performed the analysis Wrote the paper Specify contribution in more detail (optional; no more than one sentence) Other contribution
Authorship also implies responsibility and accountability for published work. The following recommendations are intended to ensure that contributors who have made substantive intellectual contributions to a paper are given credit as authors, but also that contributors credited as authors understand their role in taking responsibility