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Authorship & Contributorship Policy
1. Authorship
Authorship refers to the status or responsibility of being the author, creator, or originator of a written work, research study, or scholarly idea. In academic publishing, authorship identifies those who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the research and manuscript. Therefore, all individuals listed as authors of a manuscript submitted to Verdict: Journal of Law Science must have made meaningful contributions to the research and fulfill the following fundamental principles:
- Authors should have made significant contributions to the conception or design of the study, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or development of the manuscript.
- Authors should contribute to drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content.
- All authors must review and approve the final version of the manuscript before publication.
- All authors are responsible for the accuracy and integrity (accountability) of the work and should be able to identify their contributions and address questions concerning the research.
- Authors should understand that manuscripts under review are confidential documents. Therefore, authors must refrain from sharing or discussing their manuscripts externally during the review process. Authors are expected to respect the confidentiality of the peer-review process and editorial communications and to ensure that any sensitive or personally identifiable data, particularly data involving human participants, are appropriately anonymized, protected, and handled in accordance with applicable ethical standards.
- All authors must disclose Conflict of Interest clearly in the manuscript. Authors must disclose any relationships or circumstances that could influence authorship decisions or the integrity of the research. Therefore, all authors must submit a complete disclosures, including:
- Competing Interests: Any financial or non-financial relationships that might influence the research.
- Funding Sources: All sources of research funding, grants, or support.
- Ethical Approvals: Documentation of approvals for research involving human or animal subjects.
- Data Availability: Information on whether and where underlying data can be accessed
- Acknowledgments (If any)
2. Corresponding Author
Among all authors listed on the manuscript, at least one author must be designated as the corresponding author. The corresponding author is responsible for communicating with the journal, coordinating the submission and revision process, and ensuring that all authors have approved the submitted manuscript to be published.
A corresponding author also is required to acknowledge co-author contributions using CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) roles. CRediT enables authors to provide a clear, accurate, and comprehensive description of their individual contributions to the published work. Therefore, the corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed by all authors. The roles of all authors should be listed using the relevant categories as described below.
Note:
- The CRediT statement will be included in the Authors’ Contributions section of manuscripts submitted to Verdict: Journal of Law Science (see the example of CRediT implementation in the manuscript).
- The CRediT taxonomy does not determine authorship eligibility. Instead, it provides a transparent description of each author’s specific contribution to the research and manuscript.
- Not all CRediT roles need to be assigned to every author. However, the corresponding author should select the applicable roles based on each author’s actual contributions to the research and manuscript. Authors may have contributed to multiple roles (see the example of CRediT implementation in the manuscript).
| CRediT Roles | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 re-use. |
| Formal analysis | Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse 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 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. |
Source: Brand et al., (2015). Beyond authorship: Attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit. Learned Publishing, 28(2), 151–155. https://doi.org/10.1087/20150211
The example of CRediT Authors Contribution in the manuscript
Egi Raputri: Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. Eggi Pratama: Visualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing. Aulia Andhini: Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Resources, Software. Rahma Widi: Visualization, Resources, Software
3. Author Identification
To promote transparency, accountability, and accurate attribution of scholarly work:
- All authors are encouraged to register for and provide their ORCID iD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), a unique persistent identifier that helps distinguish researchers and connect their scholarly contributions across platforms.
- Authors should also provide their institutional affiliations and valid contact information
4. Authorship Changes
Any request to add, remove, or change the order of authors after manuscript submission must be agreed upon by all authors and approved by the Editor. The journal may require a written explanation and evidence of consent from all authors before approving any changes to the authorship. Therefore, to avoid authorship changes during the editorial process, authors are strongly advised to carefully verify the names, order, and affiliations of all authors before submitting the manuscript.
5. Contributorship
Individuals who contribute to the research but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be appropriately acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section, with their permission.
6. Prohibited Authorship Practices
Guest authorship, honorary authorship, and ghost authorship are not permitted. Authorship must be based on actual contributions to the research and manuscript.
