English Editing Service: EssayStar.com POSITION PAPERS Guidelines on Authorship of Medical Papers

IN THE belief that authors and potential authors may be helped by explicit statements of justification for author-ship, the following guidelines are offered for research pa-pers, case-series analyses, case reports, review articles, and editorials. These guidelines are based on statements issued by the International Committee of Medical Jour-nal Editors (ICMJE) that were pubhshed recently (1-3) and will eventually be incorporated into the Committee's document, "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Sub-mitted to Biomedical Journals " (4, 5). The ICMJE statements on authorship represent five principles that are applied below in the specific guide-lines. (These principles have been developed directly from the ICMJE statements with some clarifications.) Principles for Authorshi