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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 12.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Support Palliat Care. 2012 Dec;6(4):494–499. doi: 10.1097/SPC.0b013e3283597259

Table 2.

ICMJE Requirements for Authorship

  1. Substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data

  2. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content

  3. Final approval of the version to be published

Key elements of an authorship protocol

  1. Guidelines regarding the creations of manuscripts (who, when, how)

  2. Dispute resolution

  3. Creation and governance of working groups, to foster timelines

  4. Accountability