Identification of the authors

 

Identification of authors

SHILAP Journal of Lepidopterology considers that an author of a published work is a person who has made a significant intellectual contribution to it. Following the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (Committee on Publication Ethics), the following requirements must be met in order to be listed as an author:

  1. Have participated in the conception and design, or in the acquisition of data, or in the analysis and interpretation of data in the work that resulted in the article.
  2. Have participated in the writing or critical revision of the text.
  3. Have approved the version that will ultimately be published.

Those who do not meet these three criteria may only be acknowledged in the acknowledgements. To avoid the risk of fictitious or usurped authorship, it is recommended that, at the time of submission, all authors agree on their contributions and the order in which they will appear in the list of co-authors.

To specify each author's contribution to the work, it is recommended to use the criteria established by the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) taxonomy of contributor roles:

  • Conceptualisation - Ideas; formulation or evolution of the general objectives and goals of the research.
  • Data curation - Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), cleanse data, and maintain research data (including software code, when necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.
  • Formal analysis - Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesise study data.
  • Fund acquisition - Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.
  • Research - Conducting research and the research process, specifically performing experiments or collecting data/evidence.
  • Methodology - Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
  • Project management - Responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.
  • Resources - Provision of study materials, reagents, humans, materials, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources, or other analysis tools.
  • Software - Programming, software development; computer program design; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
  • Supervision - Responsibility for supervision and leadership in the planning and execution of research activities, including mentoring outside the core team.
  • Validation - Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the general replicability/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
  • Visualisation - Preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work, specifically the visualisation/presentation of data.
  • Writing - original draft - Preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including substantive translation).
  • Writing - review and editing - Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision - including pre- and post-publication stages.

The contribution of each author will be noted at the end of the article in a note entitled ‘Declaration of authorship contribution’.

To determine the order of authorship of the article, authors may use any of the three most common practices:

  • First-last-author-emphasis (FLAE) approach: the first and last authors are equally important. Between them, the order of authorship is considered to indicate decreasing contributions.
  • ‘Sequence-determines-credit’ (SDC) approach: the order indicates importance.
  • ‘Equal contribution’ (EC) norm: alphabetical order is used to recognise similar contributions or to avoid disputes in collaborative groups.

The opinions and facts stated in each article are the sole responsibility of the authors, as is the ethical suitability of the article. In addition, they must make it explicit that the text is their own work and that it respects the intellectual property rights of third parties. It is also their responsibility to ensure that they have authorisation to use, reproduce and print material that is not their property/authorship (tables, graphs, maps, diagrams, photographs, etc.). By submitting an article, authors agree that it is original and has not been submitted for consideration or published in any other journal.

To eliminate confusion over names and ensure proper attribution of publications and citations, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología uses the ORCID® persistent digital identifier as a way to ensure the correct standardisation of all authorship. Although it cannot guarantee a secure identity on its own, the adoption of ORCID is an additional control against identity fraud in authorship.

Changes in authorship

Any addition, deletion or reordering of names must be made before the manuscript has been accepted and only with the approval of the journal editor.

To request this change, the author shall send the editor:

  1. The reason justifying the request to modify the list of authors.
  2. Written confirmation from all authors agreeing to the addition, deletion or reordering. In the case of the addition or deletion of an author, confirmation from the author concerned must also be included.

In a manuscript that has already been accepted, the addition, deletion or reordering of authors will only be considered in exceptional circumstances. Publication of the article will be suspended while the request for changes is evaluated. If the manuscript has already been published online, any approved request for change will result in a correction note.