AUTHORSHIP
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- Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data ; and
- Have been involved in drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
- Have given final approval of the version to be published; and
- Agree 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.
Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. We strongly discourage gift or ghost authorship. Mere supervision, collection of data, statistical analysis and language correction do not grant authorship rights. To avoid any dispute regarding authorship authors are advised to consult COPE guidelines to avoid authorship problems.
