Authorship and criteria

As stated in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, credit for authorship requires the following four criteria:

  • Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
  • Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
  • Final approval of the version to be published; AND
  • 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.

All authors must sign an authorship form attesting that they fulfill the authorship criteria. Your submitted manuscript will not be processed unless this form is sent. There should be a statement in the manuscript explaining the contribution of each author to the work. Those contributors who did not fulfill authorship criteria should be listed in acknowledgments. Any change in authorship after submission must be approved in writing by all authors. All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the co-authors. Assurance that all authors of the paper have fulfilled these criteria for authorship should be given in the cover letter.



Changes to Authorship


Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, (b) written confirmation (e-mail or letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal, or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed. After the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.


PLAGIARISM


Submitted papers will be examined for evidence of plagiarism using PlagScan automated plagiarism detection service. The authors are responsible for plagiarism checks. It is very important for the editorial board of the Journal of Oral Health & Oral Epidemiology and the manuscript may be rejected, even if it has been accepted by reviewers. The duplication should not be more than 10%.


COPYRIGHT

 

The JOHOE supports the Open Access Initiative. Abstracts and full texts (PDF format) of all articles published by the JOHOE are freely accessible to everyone immediately upon publication. Reusing and publishing JOHOE published articles (main text, tables, and figures) is permitted by following Creative Commons user license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Users are free to copy and redistribute the JOHOE published articles in any medium or format under the Creative Commons license terms and conditions, but need to provide the appropriate bibliographic citation of the JOHOE published articles in their works.