Can an author be added after publication?

If an author needs to be added after publication, a corrigendum needs to be submitted by the authors. Note that all authors, including the one to be added, must fulfill the ICMJE Authorship Criteria. The title of the corrigendum must be “Authorship Correction: (old title)”.

Can I submit paper without supervisor?

If your paper is good and is a relevant contribution to the field, there’s a good chance an editor will accept it, single author or not. So if you feel that your paper is good as it is, go ahead and submit, you don’t need another author.

How do you handle authorship disputes?

Arbitration or mediation could provide solutions to authorship disputes where few presently exist. Because authors recognize journals’ authority to make decisions about manuscripts submitted to the journal, journals are well placed to facilitate alternative dispute resolution processes.

Who should be the first author of a manuscript?

The first author should be that person who contributed most to the work, including writing of the manuscript. The sequence of authors should be determined by the relative overall contributions to the manuscript. It is common practice to have the senior author appear last, sometimes regardless of his or her contribution.

Can an editor ask an author for a copy of their paper?

If the editor can obtain signed consent from all of the authors, then he could consider retraction. Others suggested that the editor should do nothing. Regarding the issue of the recently submitted updated version of the same paper to another journal, the Forum noted that the editor has a right to ask the author for a copy of this paper.

What should be done when a journal receives a manuscript?

The Forum suggested that there is a lesson to be learnt here: when a journal receives a manuscript, an acknowledgement should be sent to all of the authors, not just the corresponding author, and all authors should be copied in on all correspondence. This will prevent a similar situation arising in the future.

What are the guidelines for the sequence of authorship of manuscript?

The guidelines here are not as well defined as for authorship in general, Riesenberg and Lundberg[2] have made certain very important and simple suggestions to decide the sequence of authorship: The first author should be that person who contributed most to the work, including writing of the manuscript.