10-2 Writing and Publishing Scientific Articles
According to the Uniform Requirements , a person qualifies as an author of a manuscript only if he or she has done all of the following: 1. Made a substantial contribution to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data. 2. Participated in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content. 3. Granted final approval of the version to be published. Another way to look at who should be an author is to consider an author’s responsibilities: 1. An author should have generated at least a part of the intellectual content of a paper, by conceiving or designing the study, collecting reported data, or analyzing reported data. 2. An author should have taken part in writing the paper, reviewing it, or revising its intellectual content. 3. An author should be able to defend publicly in the scientific community all of the intellectual content of the paper. Because of the many problems that arise concerning authorship, journals are becoming involved in the process by establishing their own authorship guidelines. That is, many journals are requiring that authors meet certain criteria in order to be named as an author on an article. Journals are approaching this in various ways. For example, some journals require each author to state his or her particular contribution to an article using very specific wording. Other journals require that authors sign a form indicating that they have made a substantial contribution to the preparation of the manuscript. So what do you do with the people who do not meet the strict criteria for authorship? The answer is to put them in the acknowledgment section. This section is where you acknowledge people who provided Materials for the study, such as cells, tissue samples, or patients Advice Assistance with data analysis or collection Technical support Patient care Secretarial support
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