Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences (PCHCS)—Department of Occupational Therapy 2023–2024 223 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 acknowledgments. • The following apply to students as authors: − Initially coauthorship between faculty member-student collaboration efforts may not clearly define who should be given authorship credit, and in what order the authors’ names should appear on published work. Therefore, it is especially important that all individuals involved in the project discuss authorship at the beginning of the project to complete the required Faculty Member-Student Agreement for Research and Authorship Form prior to substantial time on the project being invested. − A student 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 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, with final approval granted by the program director, Department of Occupational Therapy, Nova Southeastern University—Tampa Bay. • 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. The Authorship Agreement for Research Form must be completed, especially with projects that involve multiple key contributors, to minimize the chance of misunderstandings. • Major revisions to a project may result in changes in authorship order and/or credit. Project changes may include, but are not limited to, addition of author(s) that provided needed expertise
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