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Authorship and Contributorship
JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Authorship and Contributorship
Principles for authorship, contributor recognition, author responsibilities, CRediT contributions, and the management of authorship changes and disputes.
Being named as an author of a JETS article is both a credit and a responsibility. It tells readers, employers and funders who created the work, and it tells them who will answer for it.
This page sets out who should be listed as an author, how other contributions should be recognised, and how JETS handles changes and disagreements about authorship.
Editorial Framework
Our approach follows the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and adapts the authorship criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) to engineering research.
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Authorship Criteria
Who Qualifies as an Author
A person should be listed as an author only if they meet all four of the following conditions:
A Substantial Intellectual Contribution
Made a substantial intellectual contribution to at least one of: the conception or design of the study; development of a method, model, device or experimental set-up; or collection, analysis or interpretation of the data.
B Manuscript Contribution
Wrote part of the manuscript or revised it critically for its technical content.
C Final Approval
Approved the final version submitted to JETS and any revised version.
D Accountability
Agrees to be accountable for the work, including helping to answer questions about the accuracy or integrity of any part of it.
All four conditions are required Everyone who meets these four conditions should be offered authorship. No one who fails to meet them should be listed.
Common Situations in Engineering Research
Thesis and Dissertation Work A student whose thesis forms the basis of the article is normally the first author. Supervisors qualify as authors when they meet the four conditions above, not simply because of their supervisory role.
Industrial Partners Company engineers who shaped the problem, designed tests or interpreted results may qualify as authors. Providing access to a plant, samples or operating data is, on its own, an acknowledgement-level contribution.
Laboratory and Field Work Technicians, surveyors and assistants who carried out measurements under instruction are acknowledged. If they also contributed to the design or interpretation and meet the other conditions, they should be authors.
Software and Code Developing a new model, algorithm or simulation tool that is central to the paper is a substantial contribution. Running existing software on request is not.
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Recognition
Contributions That Are Acknowledged Rather Than Authored
People and organisations whose help does not meet all four conditions should be thanked in the Acknowledgements section. Typical examples include:
Securing funding, or heading the department or research group, without other involvement in the study.
Administrative, logistical or general technical support.
Supplying materials, specimens, equipment, datasets or site access.
Routine data collection, sample preparation or instrument operation.
Language editing, proofreading, translation or professional writing assistance.
Reviewing an early draft and offering general comments.
Acknowledgements
The corresponding author must obtain permission from everyone named in the Acknowledgements.
Paid writing or editing services, and the source of any funding for them, must be disclosed.
Generative AI Tools
Generative AI tools cannot be authors, because they cannot approve a manuscript or be held accountable for it.
Their use must be disclosed as described in the JETS policy on generative AI .
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Prohibited Practices
Authorship Practices That Are Not Accepted
JETS does not accept any of the following:
Gift, Guest or Honorary Authorship Listing someone because of their seniority, position or reputation, to make a paper look stronger, or as a favour to be repaid.
Ghost Authorship Leaving out someone who meets the authorship criteria, or concealing the involvement of a professional or commercial writer.
Purchased or Traded Authorship Offering, selling or buying a place on an author list, including through agents or paper mills.
Excluding a Contributor Omitting someone who qualifies, for example a former student or a colleague who has moved institution.
Suspected cases are handled under the JETS policy on allegations of misconduct.
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Contributor Roles
Describing Each Author's Contribution
Every research article must include an Author Contributions statement before the Acknowledgements.
Recommended Taxonomy
CRediT — Contributor Roles Taxonomy
JETS recommends CRediT terms, which are widely used and machine-readable.
Conceptualization Methodology Software Validation Formal Analysis Investigation Resources Data Curation Writing – Original Draft Writing – Review & Editing Visualization Supervision Project Administration Funding Acquisition
Example
A. Pratama: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Writing – Original Draft.
S. Wibowo: Software, Formal Analysis, Visualization.
R. Hidayat: Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing, Funding Acquisition.
Authors who contributed equally may be marked as such with a footnote. The statement is published with the article.
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Author Order
Order of Authors
The authors decide the order of names together, before submission. JETS does not impose a convention, since the meaning of first, last and middle positions varies between fields and institutions.
The authors should be able to explain their chosen order if asked.
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Responsibility
The Corresponding Author
One author acts as corresponding author on behalf of all the others. This person:
Confirms that every listed author meets the criteria in Section 1 and has approved the submission.
Submits the signed JETS Authorship Statement and the Declaration of Competing Interest.
Makes sure that names, affiliations, email addresses and funding details are complete and correct.
Keeps all co-authors informed at each stage of review and production, and shares reviewer comments and decisions with them.
Answers questions from readers and the journal after publication.
Contactability The corresponding author should use an institutional email address and remain reachable for at least 12 months after publication. If they change institution, they should tell the editorial office.
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Author Identity
Names, Affiliations and Identifiers
Correct names and affiliations are essential for the article to be indexed and credited properly in Scopus and other databases.
✓ Write each author's name exactly as they wish it to appear in the published record, and keep it consistent with earlier publications.
✓ Authors with a single name (mononym), which is common in Indonesia, should give that name as it appears on their other indexed work. The journal will not add or split names without the author's agreement.
✓ List the institution where the work was carried out. An author who has since moved may add a "present address".
✓ Give the full name of the department, institution, city and country for each affiliation.
✓ Each author is encouraged to provide an ORCID iD at submission.
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Author List
Changes to the Author List
The author list submitted with the manuscript is expected to be final. Any request to add, remove or reorder authors after submission must:
1. Come from the corresponding author.
2. Explain why the change is needed.
3. Include written agreement from every author, including anyone being added or removed.
The editor may put the manuscript on hold while a change request is being considered. After acceptance, changes are allowed only in exceptional circumstances and at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief. After publication, any change requires a formal correction.
Deceased Author If an author dies before publication, the corresponding author should inform the editorial office. The deceased author can remain on the paper, with a note, if they met the authorship criteria.
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Collaborative Research
Group and Consortium Authorship
A research group or consortium may be named in the author list.
The manuscript must then state which individuals take responsibility for the work, and list the members of the group, either in the author list or in an appendix.
Only individuals who meet the authorship criteria are treated as authors for indexing purposes.
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Dispute Resolution
Authorship Disputes
Most disputes can be avoided if the research team agrees on authorship and author order at the start of a project, records that agreement, and revisits it when people join or leave or when roles change.
JETS does not decide who deserves authorship.
If a dispute arises before publication, the editors will ask the authors to resolve it among themselves or through their institutions, and will suspend processing until the authors confirm in writing that it has been resolved.
If a dispute or concern arises after publication, the editors will contact all the authors, may ask the institutions concerned to investigate, and will publish a correction, an expression of concern or, where misconduct is established, a retraction.
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Accountability
Shared Responsibility
By submitting a manuscript, all authors confirm that they have read it, that they stand behind its content, and that they have reasonable confidence in the contributions of their co-authors.
Each author is responsible for the parts of the work they carried out, and should be able to identify which co-author is responsible for each other part.
Institutional and Funder Requirements
Authors should also follow the authorship policies of their own institutions and funders.
JETS may ask for further information about authorship or contributions at any stage.
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CRediT Author Statement
Credit Author Statement
The Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences (JETS) requires authors to provide a CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) Author Statement to transparently describe each author's individual contributions to the research and preparation of the manuscript.
The 14 CRediT Roles
1. Conceptualization Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
2. Data Curation Management activities to annotate, clean, organize, and maintain research data for initial use and later reuse.
3. Formal Analysis Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
4. Funding Acquisition Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to the publication.
5. Investigation Conducting the research and investigation process, including experiments or data/evidence collection.
6. Methodology Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
7. Project Administration Management and coordination responsibility for research activity planning and execution.
8. Resources Provision of study materials, reagents, laboratory samples, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
9. Software Programming, software development, implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms, and testing of code components.
10. Supervision Oversight and leadership responsibility for research activity planning and execution, including mentorship.
11. Validation Verification of the replication or reproducibility of results, experiments, and other research outputs.
12. Visualization Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization or data presentation.
13. Writing – Original Draft Preparation and writing of the initial manuscript draft, including substantive translation.
14. Writing – Review & Editing Critical review, commentary, revision, and editing of the manuscript during pre- or post-publication stages.
How to Prepare the Statement
State the contribution of each author
The contribution of each author should be stated using the relevant CRediT roles. Multiple authors may share the same role, and each author may be assigned multiple roles according to their actual contributions.
Example
CRediT Author Statement
A.B.: Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal Analysis, Writing – Original Draft.
C.D.: Investigation, Data Curation, Visualization.
E.F.: Software, Validation, Writing – Review & Editing.
G.H.: Supervision, Project Administration, Funding Acquisition, Writing – Review & Editing.
Final confirmation All authors should review and approve their stated contributions and the final version of the manuscript.
Further Information
For further information about the CRediT taxonomy, please refer to the official CRediT guidelines.
JETS Authorship Policy
Credit Should Reflect Contribution and Responsibility
JETS expects authorship to reflect meaningful intellectual contribution, participation in the manuscript, approval of the final work, and shared responsibility for the integrity of the research.
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