PUBLICATION ETHICS
NEWREDMARS EDUCATION journals' authorship policy
Being an author
The NEWREDMARS EDUCATION journals do not require all authors of a research paper to sign the letter of submission, nor do they impose an order on the list of authors. Submission to a NEWREDMARS EDUCATION journal is taken by the journal to mean that all the listed authors have agreed all of the contents, including the author list and author contributions statements. The corresponding author is responsible for having ensured that this agreement has been reached to all other authors, and that all authors have agreed to the terms and conditions of the journal and given their consent for the submission of manuscript to the journal, and for managing all communication between the journal and all co-authors, before and after publication. Any changes to the author list after submission, such as a change in the order of the authors, or the deletion or addition of authors, needs to be approved by every author.
The author list should include all appropriate researchers and no others. Authorship provides credit for a researcher’s contributions to a study and carries accountability. The NEWREDMARS EDUCATION journals do not prescribe the kinds of contributions that warrant authorship but encourage transparency by publishing author contributions statements. NEWREDMARS EDUCATION journals editors are not in a position to investigate or adjudicate authorship disputes before or after publication. Such disagreements if they cannot be resolved amongst authors should be brought up to the relevant institutional authority.
The editors at the NEWREDMARS EDUCATION journals assume that the corresponding author and on multi-group collaboration, at least one member of each collaborating group, usually the most senior member of each submitting group or team, has accepted responsibility for the contributions to the manuscript from that team. This responsibility includes, but is not limited to: (1) ensuring that original data upon which the submission is based is preserved and retrievable for reanalysis; (2) approving data presentation as representative of the original data; and (3) foreseeing and minimizing obstacles to the sharing of data, materials, algorithms or reagents described in the work.
The primary affiliation for each author should be the institution where the majority of their work was done. If an author has subsequently moved, the current address may also be stated. NEWREDMARS EDUCATION remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Author contributions statements
Authors are required to include a statement of responsibility in the manuscript that specifies the contribution of every author. The level of detail varies; some disciplines
produce manuscripts that comprise discrete efforts readily articulated in detail, whereas other fields operate as group efforts at all stages. A NEWREDMARS EDUCATION Editorial describes this policy in more detail.
NEWREDMARS EDUCATION journals also allow one set of up to six co-authors to be specified as having contributed equally to the work or having jointly supervised the work. Other equal contributions are best described in author contributions statements. Corresponding authors have specific responsibilities (described below) and are usually limited to three.
Corresponding author - prepublication responsibilities
The corresponding author is solely responsible for communicating with the journal and with managing communication between co-authors. Before submission, the corresponding author ensures that all authors are included in the author list, its order has been agreed by all authors, and that all authors are aware that the paper was submitted.
At submission, the corresponding author must include written permission from the authors of the work concerned for mention of any unpublished material included in the manuscript, for example others’ data, in press manuscripts, personal communications or work in preparation. The corresponding author also must clearly identify at submission any material within the manuscript that has previously been published elsewhere by other authors (for example, figures) and provide written permission from those authors and/or publishers, as appropriate, for the re-use of such material.
After acceptance, the proof is sent to the corresponding author, who circulates it to all co-authors and deals with the journal on their behalf; the journal will not necessarily correct errors after publication if they result from errors that were present on a proof that was not shown to co-authors before publication. The corresponding author is responsible for the accuracy of all content in the proof, in particular that names of co- authors are present and correctly spelled, and that addresses and affiliations are current.
Corresponding author - responsibilities after publication
The journal regards the corresponding author as the point of contact for queries about the published paper. It is this author’s responsibility to inform all co-authors of matters arising and to ensure such matters are dealt with promptly. The name and e-mail address of this author is published in the paper.
Correcting the record
Authors of published material have a responsibility to inform the journal promptly if they become aware of any part that requires correcting. Any published correction requires the consent of all co-authors, so time is saved if requests for corrections are accompanied by signed agreement by all authors (in the form of a scanned attachment to an email, or as one combined email containing agreement messages from all the authors). In cases where one or some authors do not agree with the correction statement, the coordinating author must include correspondence to and from the dissenting author(s) as part of the scanned attachment or composite email.
A confidential process
NEWREDMARS EDUCATION journal editors treat the submitted manuscript and all communication with authors and referees as confidential. Authors must also treat communication with the journal as confidential: correspondence with the journal, reviewers’ reports and other confidential material must not be posted on any website or otherwise publicized without prior permission from the editors, whether or not the submission is eventually published. Our policies about posting preprints and post prints, and about previous communication of the work at conferences or as part of a personal blog or of an academic thesis are described at the section of this guide about confidentiality policies.
Referee suggestions
Authors are welcome to suggest suitable independent reviewers when they submit their manuscripts. Authors may also request the journal to exclude a few (usually not more than two) individuals or laboratories. The journal sympathetically considers such exclusion requests and usually honours them, but the editor’s decision on the choice of peer-reviewers is final.
Consortia authorship
If a consortium is listed as a collective of authors, all members of the consortium are considered authors and must be listed in the published article as such. If not all members of the consortium agree to the responsibilities of authorship, the members that are authors will be listed separately from those who are not. (To facilitate submission of manuscripts with large author lists, please consult the journal editor before submission.)
NEWREDMARS EDUCATION journal editorials on authorship:
orresponding authors should not neglect their responsibility to a journal or their coauthors.
