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Authorship and contributorship
Date | Section | What's new |
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| Deceased authors: RevMan and Archie guidance | Minor edit to correct the order of the steps in the guidance. |
| Authorship disputes | New section (replace sentence in older version) with link out to relevant COPE resources. |
| Deceased authors | Updated Archie/RevMan guidance on email address format. |
| Criteria for authorship (authors on the by-line) | Updated section on 'Acknowledgements' to clarify permission must be granted by named individuals and added a link to relevant section of the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals. |
| Authors using a group name | Separated Archie/RevMan guidance from general guidance. |
| Change in author affiliation | Added new section on a change to author affiliation. | |
| Deceased authors | Updated process for the licence for publication form when author deceased (advised by Publisher): a signed licence is required, but the licence may be submitted by the corresponding author on the others’ behalf (provided he/she had the deceased authors’ agreement and consent to publish in advance of their passing). |
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