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AUTHORSHIP CONTRIBUTIONS
JCO adheres to the guidelines on authorship established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors statement on Authorship and Contribution. According to these guidelines, the criteria established for authorship are intended to present an honest account of what took place. Those with substantial intellectual contributions or who have written the manuscript should be included as an author. Entering patients for study or providing funding or administrative oversight are not sufficient for authorship; instead these contributions should appear in the Acknowledgment section. If someone other than the authors, such as a science writer or corporate employee, has participated in writing the paper, this participation must be disclosed. If a multicenter group conducted the research, the group should identify a writing committee that accepts direct responsibility for the manuscript.
Authors themselves, not JCO, are responsible for settling any disputes about authorship.
JCO strictly enforces a limit of 20 authors for a manuscript.
Author Contribution Forms must be completed and submitted as part of every online submission. These forms should be forwarded to the corresponding author, rather than the Editorial Office. There are two versions of the Author Disclosure and Author Contribution forms that can be downloaded here:
Author Disclosure Declaration and Author Contribution forms for submissions reporting on clinical trials
Author Disclosure Declaration and Author Contribution forms for submissions not reporting on clinical trials
The forms are also available in the Author Area of the manuscript processing system or upon request from the Editorial Office.
Corresponding authors are responsible for ensuring that all authors have reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript prior to submission.
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