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Please refer to Authorship and contributorship in the revised editorial guidance resource.
See linked policy: Joint first authors
Joint first authors are assigned by adding a footnote in RevMan. To add the footnote, open the review in RevMan, click on the Content Pane > Review information > Authors. Double-click on the authors in question and insert "These authors contributed equally to this work." in the Footnote field at the bottom of the author's contact details.