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Authorship Responsibility
AMA Manual of Style Committee
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. Alexander Pope More than 50 years ago, Richard M. Hewitt, MD, then head of the Section of ...
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Authorship: Definition, Criteria, Contributions, and Requirements
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
UPDATE: In December 2013, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) revised its recommendations on authorship and added a fourth criterion for authorship. The subsection on ...
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Changes in Authorship
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Changes made in authorship (ie, order, addition, and deletion of authors) should be discussed and approved by all authors. Any such changes made after a manuscript has been submitted should be ...
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Group and Collaborative Authorship
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Group or collaborative authorship usually involves multicenter study investigators, members of working groups, and official or self-appointed expert boards, panels, or committees. Such group-author ...
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Guest and Ghost Authors
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
At least 1 author must be responsible for any part of an article crucial to its main conclusions, and everyone listed as an author must have made a substantial contribution to that specific article. ...
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Number of Authors
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The number of authors whose names appear in the byline of scientific papers increased steadily during the second half of the 20th century. This increase occurred as a result of specialization, ...
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Order of Authorship
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Before proposals for identifying authors' contributions began to be implemented, proposed guides for determining order of authorship ranged from simple alphabetical listings to mathematical formulas ...
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Unsigned Editorials, Anonymous Authors, Pseudonymous Authors
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The practice of publishing unsigned or anonymous editorials provides “vituperative editorialists” protection from the enemies they might make when taking unpopular stands in the pages of their ...
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