Author Contributions
DuJAL requires the inclusion of author contributions and acknowledgements in the published manuscript on the basis of the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) taxonomy (Brand et al. 2015; see below). Author contributions are compiled by selecting relevant roles (and only those) from the CRediT taxonomy (below) and attributing them to the authors. Not all roles need to be included and which roles are selected is up to the author team. Author contributions should look like this:
Author A: conceptualization, methodology, investigation, writing - original draft; Author B: conceptualization, methodology, writing - review and editing; Author C: writing - review and editing.
The order of authors is a joint decision by the authors and cannot be inferred from this taxonomy. Use the ‘Acknowledgements’ section to acknowledge the work of people who don’t qualify as authors.
CRediT taxonomy (Brand, Allen, Altman, Hlava & Scott, 2015, p. 153)
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Conceptualization |
Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims |
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Methodology |
Development or design of methodology; creation of models |
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Software |
Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components |
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Validation |
Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs |
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Formal analysis |
Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data |
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Investigation |
Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection |
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Resources |
Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools |
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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 re‐use |
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Writing – original draft |
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation) |
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Writing – review and 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 |
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Visualization |
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation |
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Supervision |
Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team |
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Project administration |
Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution |
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Funding acquisition |
Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication |
