Authorship and Contributorship Policy
Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the conception or design of the work; acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; drafting or critical revision of the manuscript; and who approve the final version and agree to be accountable for the work.
All listed authors must approve the manuscript before submission and must agree to its publication.
Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately.
JICTRA does not permit guest, gift, honorary, or ghost authorship.
Any request to add, remove, or rearrange authors must be submitted to the Editorial Office with a clear explanation and written approval from all authors.
Changes in authorship after acceptance are strongly discouraged and will only be considered in exceptional circumstances. JICTRA reserves the right to reject an authorship change when adequate documentation or consent is not provided.
Authors are encouraged to provide an Author Contributions Statement, preferably using the CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy.
The CRediT taxonomy provides a structured approach for describing individual contributions to scholarly work.
• Methodology
• Software
• Validation
• Formal analysis
• Investigation
• Data curation
• Writing – original draft
• Writing – review and editing
• Visualization
• Supervision
Approval: All authors must approve the manuscript before submission.
Accountability: Authors must accept responsibility for the work.
Integrity: Guest, gift, honorary, and ghost authorship are prohibited.
Consent: Authorship changes require written approval from all authors.
Transparency: Individual contributions should be reported using an Author Contributions Statement.
