Authorship Criteria/ Contribution Details

Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to each of the three components mentioned below as specified by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors:

• Concept and design of study or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data;
• Drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
• Final approval of the version to be published.

Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is also not sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content of the manuscript.

Contributors should provide a description of contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. The description should be divided in following categories, as applicable: concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data analysis, and interpretation, manuscript preparation, and manuscript revision. The authors should be listed in the order of contribution to the research and manuscript writing. Every manuscript must be accompanied by a signed contributors’ form where in the authors are listed in a particular order to which they have all agreed as depicted by their endorsement (by signatures). Authors' contributions will be printed along with the article. One or more author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as 'guarantor'.

Other details are as provided at https://icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-contributors.html