Specialising in Peer-Review and Ethics

 Authorship Form:

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I, ______________________ hereby confirm that all named authors meet the ICMJE

(corresponding author)

requirement of authorship and meet all three criteria as mentioned below:

1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and

3) final approval of the version to be published.

Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.

 

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*First signature should be of corresponding author

 

The acknowledgment section includes contributors who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Medical Writers; Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.

 

Groups of persons who have contributed materially to the paper but whose contributions do not justify authorship may be listed under a heading such as 'clinical investigators' or 'participating investigators,' and their function or contribution should be described-for example, 'served as scientific advisors,' 'critically reviewed the study proposal,' 'collected data,' or 'provided and cared for study patients.'

 

I confirm that this paper is not being submitted simultaneously elsewhere.

 

signed: ________________________ date:

 

 

(corresponding author)

 

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