Authorships

It is important that the correct list of authors is attributed to an article from the start of the submission process. Lists of authors with incorrect information may have academic, legal or financial consequences for which Comechingonia is not responsible. The journal reserves the right to temporarily or permanently ban people who abuse or use in bad faith the authorship of the works. 

All authors listed on a submission must have given prior approval to have their name attributed to the file(s) that are being submitted and agree to the publication. The corresponding author has responsibility to ensure that all authors qualify for, and have agreed to, authorship of the submission. They are also responsible for informing all co-authors of relevant editorial information during the review process.

Authors must have:

  • Made a significant contribution to the conception and design of the study, the collection and analysis of data including field work or lab work and the writing of the article.
  • Contributed to the drafting the work, or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
  • Provided final approval of the version to be published.
  • Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
  • Agreed to be named on the author list, and approved of the full author list.
  • Those that meet some but do not meet all of the above criteria should be acknowledged in the publication but not listed as an author. Examples that do not qualify for authorship but should be acknowledged are sources of funding, supervision of research groups, administrative support, language editing and proof reading.

Order of authors

The order of authors is determined according to their intellectual contribution to the article. The lead author is the author who has made the greatest intellectual contribution.

Credit roles

The authorship roles set out in the Credit guidelines are as follows:

  1. Conceptualization
  2. Data Curation
  3. Formal Analysis
  4. Funding Acquisition
  5. Investigation
  6. Methodology
  7. Project Administration
  8. Resources
  9. Software
  10. Supervision
  11. Validation
  12. Visualization
  13. Writing – Original Draft
  14. Writing – Review & Editing

Not all need to be met, but each author and their percentage contribution should be weighted within one of the proposed categories.