CHCS Student Handbook 2019-2020

Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences—Department of Occupational Therapy 2019–2020 185 from an incomplete to an earned grade must occur prior to the first day of the next academic year, or the student’s grade will be converted to an F . The taking of incompletes is strongly discouraged and requires written approval of the course instructor. The course instructor’s written approval will specify the timeframe during which the course requirements must be completed. Authorship Credit and Order Guidelines and Policy • Principal authorship, order of authorship, and other publication credits should accurately reflect the relative scientific, technical, professional, or scholarly contributions of the individuals involved. • No authorship credit should be given to someone whose suggestion/idea/feedback may have influenced a project, but did not actively participate in project development and implementation. This person could be acknowledged as described in bullet five (following). • Authorship is not merited solely for administrative support, financial contribution, or a supervisor /adviser’s position. • Authorship credit should go to those who do the actual writing and to those who have made significant scientific or scholarly contributions to a study, such as formulating hypotheses, structuring the design, conducting the analysis, interpreting results, or writing a major portion of a manuscript. • Those with minor contributions to the manuscript are appropriately acknowledged in footnotes, an introductory statement, or acknowledgements. • Student as author − − A student is usually listed as a principal author on a multiple-authored paper that is substantially based on the student’s dissertation, report, or project. − − However, he or she is not automatically entitled to authorship if only some or minor material from the project is used in a paper, proposal, or progress or final report written by the student’s adviser, a faculty member, or supervisor. Reference to the material’s origin is sufficient in these cases. − − If the student’s dissertation or project is based on data collected as part of a larger research project under the supervision of one or more faculty members, it is appropriate to include those supervisors or faculty members as coauthors. − − Submissions for publication or professional presentations (to include posters) that originated from a previous class assignment (papers, reports, projects, etc.) should first be discussed and agreed upon with the course instructor. • Coauthorship may be a complex issue in certain cases. It is suggested that authorship credit and order be discussed with all possible collaborators before and during the project. There should be an agreement, especially with projects that involve multiple key contributors, to minimize the chance of misunderstandings. • Major revisions to a manuscript for publication or professional presentation may result in a change of responsibilities or work effort. This may require a revision in authorship order and/ or credit. These changes should be discussed and agreed upon before and during any major revision process.