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For papers to be
published in journals authorship credit should be based only on substantial
contributions to
(a Conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data;
(b Drafting the article or revising it critically for important
intellectual content
(c Final approval of the version to be published.
Conditions a, b, and c must all be met. Any part of an article critical to
its main conclusions must be the responsibility of at least one author. Each
author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public
responsibility for the content. (This statement is taken from the authorship
policy adopted by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and
published in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to
Biomedical Journals, 1994 and N Engl J Med 336:309-315, 1997.)
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