Authorship Policy

Criteria for authorship: a substantial intellectual contribution to a research project. The following are examples, though how much contribution qualifies for authorship is still somewhat subjective.

• Developing the scientific idea of conceptual framework

• Performing substantial calculations

• Designing, implementing, or substantially contributing to code or simulations

• Analyzing or interpreting results

• Writing significant portions of the manuscript

• Providing revisions that significantly improve the scientific content

Expectations of authors

• Participate in final review of all sections of the manuscript

• Be responsible for the results and conclusions, including parts they did not write.

• Assist in responding to referee reports.

• Lead author coordinates writing and submitting manuscript, maintaining version control, and communicating with co-authors.

Author ordering

• Authors with the largest contribution are first.

• Equally contributing authors are listed alphabetically.

• The author list/order should be discussed early in the collaboration, not only right before submission.