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Author Guidelines

Check out Author's Guidelines on journal policies page.
Check out Author-duties on journal policies page (3. Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement)
Check out Authorship and contributorship on journal policies page (3. Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement)

Regardless of contribution and registration system, all authors are equally responsible for the article:

• Authorship and contributorship

Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work and should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions.

BJRS recommends that authorship be based on four criteria: substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, drafting or revising the work, final approval of the version to be published, and agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

There is also the specification system CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) which is maintained by NISO - https://credit.niso.org/. CRediT defines 14 different authorship roles or functions, described as follows:

• Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Data curation - Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
• Formal analysis - Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Funding acquisition - Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Investigation - Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
• Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Resources - Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
• Software - Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Supervision - Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
• Validation– Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
• Visualization– Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
• Writing – original draft– Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing – review & editing– Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Regardless of contribution and registration system, all authors are equally responsible for the article.

• Conflicts of interest

BJRS requires that authors disclose any conflicts of interest that could influence their research.