Authorship policy

The Corresponding Author should ensure that all appropriate Co-Authors and no inappropriate Co-Authors are included in the paper and that all Co-Authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication. Each Author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content and be designated as an Author. All Authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: 1) the concept and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, 3) final approval of the version to be submitted. Authors who do not meet all 3 criteria should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section.

Of note, no changes to the Authorship (including adding or removing an Author, or changing the order of Authors) are allowed after accepting the manuscript for publication.