Authorship should be limited to persons who made substantial scholarly contributions to the work, participated in drafting or critically revising it, approved the final version, and accept accountability for the published work. Contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged with permission.

● All authors must approve the author list and order before submission.

● Changes to authorship after submission require a written explanation and agreement of all affected authors, subject to editorial approval.

● Gift, guest and ghost authorship are prohibited.

● For collaborative/empirical studies, the journal may request a CRediT-style contributor statement.