Authorship contributions policy

Authorship will be attributed to those individuals who have contributed significantly to the design, execution or interpretation of the study. All authors must meet the authorship criteria established by international guidelines, such as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria.

All authors must agree to the submission of the manuscript and the inclusion of their names in the author list. Submission of the manuscript implies the consent of all authors for authorship and publication. Individuals who have contributed significantly to the study but do not meet the authorship criteria should be acknowledged in the acknowledgments section. Authors are expected to disclose any contributions that do not meet the authorship criteria.

The order of authors will be determined according to their contribution to the work. Authors must agree and confirm the order of authorship prior to manuscript submission. All authors must review and approve the final manuscript before submission and be aware that they are assuming collective responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of the work. Any change to the list of authors after acceptance of the manuscript will require the written consent of all authors involved. The designated corresponding author will assume responsibility for communication with the journal and will undertake to transmit relevant information to the other authors.

Authors' contribution
In the interest of transparency, the journal requests that authors submit a statement regarding the individual contributions of each author, regardless of the number of contributors. CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is a taxonomy of authorship roles that many scientific publishers are adopting for the management of scientific publication. This taxonomy emerged following a collaborative workshop in 2012 led by Harvard University and the Wellcome Trust, with input from researchers, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and publishers, including Elsevier represented by Cell Press.

Only those authors who have contributed significantly and made primary contributions (such as conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, funding acquisition, research, methodology, project administration, resources, software, supervision, validation, visualization, writing of the original draft, writing, review and editing, among others). The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that contributions are accurate and in accordance with the number of declared authors. The Editorial Committee of the journal reserves the right to consider, depending on the characteristics of the research, the effects of authorship and, if there are inconveniences, these would be communicated to the authors during the evaluation process.

Identification of authorship contribution will be used exclusively in research articles and clinical case studies. Authorship roles will be identified in the following order, including each author in the corresponding role and omitting roles that do not apply in each case: Conceptualization / Data curation / Formal analysis / Funding acquisition / Research / Methodology / Administration of the project / Resources / Software / Supervision / Validation / Visualization / Writing the original draft / Writing, review and editing.