Authors are strongly advised during the submission process to correctly define the group of authors, the Corresponding Author, and the order of authors. Changes of authorship by adding or deleting authors, and/or changes in Corresponding Author, and/or changes in the order of authors are not accepted after acceptance of a manuscript.
Please note that the names of the authors will be published exactly as they appear on the accepted submission.
Please make sure that the names of all authors are present and correctly spelled, and that addresses and affiliations are current. Adding and/or deleting authors during the revision stage are generally not permitted, but in some cases it may be warranted. Reasons for these changes in authorship should be explained in detail by filling the authorship change request form. Approval of the change during revision is at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief or Managing Editor.
Anyone identified as an author must have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the research and to the writing of the article. They must be willing to take a shared responsibility in the research and in the article and approve the final version to be published. Anyone who does not fulfil these criteria but has contributed to either the research or the writing of the article should be acknowledged and thanked in the “Acknowledgements” section at the end of the article.
Ideally, the contribution of each named author should be given in a “Contributor list” at the end of each article (e.g. “Full Name of Author 1 and Full Name of Author 2 conceived the study and were responsible for the design and development of the data analysis. Full Name of Author 1, Full Name of Author 3 and Full Name of Author 2 were responsible for data collection and analysis. Full Name of Author 1 and Full Name of Author 2 were responsible for data interpretation. Full Name of Author 3 wrote the first draft of the article.”).
Information about article preparation and how to submit can be found here <Guidelines for Authors>
