Authorship Policy

The ICMJE authorship criteria apply to publications resulting from the work of Taskforce 2.3. In this context, the criteria are adapted and summarised as follows:

1. Substantial contribution to the conception and planning of the work.
2. Substantial contribution to organisation and management of taskforce activity, including the code repository.
3. Substantial contribution to implementation of code testing.
4. Substantial contribution to standardisation of code.
5. Substantial contribution to communication and dissemination of taskforce activity.
6. Substantial participation in taskforce discussions.
7. Contribution to manuscript, review of manuscript draft and approval of final version.
8. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

To qualify for authorship, OSIPI members should contribute to:

• one or more of items 1 - 5
• item 6
• item 7
• item 8

Authors will be ordered according to these principles: first author: co-lead; last author: lead; “middle authors”: filled according to extent of contribution, with active taskforce members listed from the front and contributing OSIPI leaders listed from the end.

Contributing existing code alone is not sufficient to meet the authorship criteria but will be recognised (wherever possible) via article acknowledgements, in source code and in documentation. However, code contributors with relevant expertise are welcome to join the task force and co-author its publications, subject to the above criteria.