Authorship Policy
Authorship confers the credit and implies responsibilities and accountabilities for published manuscripts. The contributors who have substantial intellectual contribution must be given credit for their work as authors.
JLJ recommends that the authors must fulfill the given criteria for authorship:
- Author must have a substantial contribution to the conception and design of work or the collection, analysis and interpretation of data for the research work
- Author has drafted or reviewed the work critically
- Author has finally approved the work for publication
- Author has agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work to clarify the queries regarding accuracy and integrity of any part of the work
Contributors of the work, who are not meeting the above given authorship criteria, should be listed in the acknowledgment section.
An author must also be able to identify the potential co-authors giving them order according to their contribution.
Corresponding author must also be nominated for the purpose of active communication. He must be available for correspondence throughout the process of submission and peer review till publication.
