Authorship

Authorship or co-authorship means a person who has made a significant contribution to the manuscript and shares responsibility and accountability for the outcome. If a manuscript is written by more than one author, one person will be chosen to be the corresponding author. This person will handle all correspondence regarding the manuscript and will sign the publishing agreement on behalf of all the authors. If you are a co-author, it means that: (1) You have made a significant contribution to the research, either in the concept or design, data acquisition, analysis and interpretation, or in all of these areas; (2) You have drafted, written, or revised the article; (3) You have reviewed and approved the final version of the article before submission.
You have agreed to submit the manuscript to the journal; (4) You are aware that you are responsible and accountable for the content of the manuscript; (5) You understand that the corresponding author will act on your behalf in any communication regarding the article, including submission, peer review, production, and post-publication; (6) In line with standard publishing ethics, if the article is found to be unsafe, contains errors, is in some way fraudulent, or violates the publishing agreement, the responsibility is shared by all the co-authors mentioned.