Authorship and Responsibility Policies

Authorship Criteria

The Bioscience Journal adopts ICMJE authorship criteria as described in http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html#two:

 

"The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:

  • Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
  • Drafting the work or reviewing it critically for important intellectual content; AND
  • Final approval of the version to be published; AND
  • Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work done, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors." (ICMJE).

 

Only collaborators meeting all 4 criteria should be identified as authors.

Important: Authors' responsibility, as specified in the 4th criterion, extends to any information, data, or images that have been generated and/or edited with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools, as described in our Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools policies.

 

Contributors who do not meet these criteria should be acknowledged in the "Acknowledgments" section and must not accept the inclusion of their names in the list of authors.

Finally, in order to encourage best practices regarding the adoption of identifiers, and also as a technical criterion, Bioscience Journal requires all authors to have an updated ORCID record that presents, at a minimum, their academic information and current institutional affiliation.

 

Authors' contribution and responsibility

A scientific publication is often one of the outcomes of a long collaborative effort developed during research.

Bioscience Journal understands that the authorship criteria recommended by ICMJE and adopted by the journal cover a wide range of possibilities and combinations of contributions for different collaborators. In this sense, aiming to provide due recognition to those responsible for the work, Bioscience Journal requires that all specific individual contributions from each author be declared during the initial submission.

Additionally, to ensure transparency and accountability, the individual contributions declared by the authors will be made available on the Bioscience Journal website for all accepted and published submissions.

To facilitate and standardize the attribution of authorship credit, the journal strongly encourages authors to adopt the CRediT nomenclature when identifying their contributions:

  • The CRediT (Contributor Role Taxonomy) taxonomy consists of a vocabulary of 14 terms representing different areas of collaboration. In addition to being NISO certified in 2022, the descriptors are available in several languages, making it easier for authors to identify all their contributions to the work.
  • If authors choose to use other terms in their contribution statements, it is mandatory to include the justification for this decision during the initial submission.

 

Disputes or changes in authorship

Bioscience Journal understands that authors are responsible for evaluating authorship criteria and expects them to discuss and agree on the inclusion and the order of names during the research development stages, rather than at the time of submission. For this reason, before publication, only requests for changes in the order of authors will be addressed.

  • For the removal or inclusion of authors, the process must be canceled and a new submission sent.
  • Cases of authorship disputes or changes after publication will be carefully evaluated according to the journal's Research and Publication Ethics policies.

 

Acknowledgment of non-author contributions

Collaborators who do not meet the authorship criteria should be credited in the "Acknowledgments" section, provided that each of them agrees and authorizes their inclusion.

 

Similarly, all types of non-financial support received from institutions must also be described in the "Acknowledgments" section.

Financial support of any kind must be declared on the title page, according to our conflicts of interest policies.

The use of Chatbots or other Artificial Intelligence tools must be recorded in a specific section within the article when used for simple text processing activities, such as assistance in text generation, image-to-text conversion, or text revision. In this case, authors must describe how the tools were used and are encouraged to include details such as dates, names, and versions, as described in our Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools policies.