As a general guideline, where an author made a substantial contribution to a protocol or review (sufficient to warrant authorship) but died before publication, and the co-authors feel it is appropriate to include the deceased author on the by-linebyline, then editorial teams could permit inclusion of the author on the by-line byline until the review is updated.

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If the deceased author also was the contact person for a protocol or review, a new contact person Contact Person (corresponding author) must be identified.

If the deceased author is listed on the

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byline

Contributorship statement: This should inform readers that the author is deceased, when the author died (e.g. month and year), the author’s contribution to the protocol or review, and whether the living authors made substantive changes to the review beyond the deceased author’s contribution.

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Contact details: Modify contact details so that the published protocol or review will note that the author is deceased and include the name, institution, and country that were correct before they died, delete the rest of their contact details, and put ‘Deceased’ in the footnote field of the author contact details in the review. This is a review-level annotation. If the author in question is included on the author line of more than one review, the same footnote should be included in each of the reviews they authored. 

Archie/RevMan guidance

: Managing Editors need to make the following changes:

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