Authorship policy

Authorship policy (1)

The papers presented in the Ibero-American Journal of Education must be signed by all those who have made a significant contribution to the manuscript. That is, they have contributed significantly to the conception and design of the study, to the analysis and interpretation of the data, and have participated in the final drafting or revision of the manuscript. In this sense, authors are asked to send the  declaration of authorship signed through the platform when the manuscript is sent.

The order of authors should be established at the time the work is planned and roles and responsibilities are distributed. If the workload varies over the course of the paper’s development, the order should be altered to favour those who have taken on more work.

The order reflects the role and involvement that each of the authors has had in the development of the work and, although there is no written norm in this respect, the following conventions are increasingly assumed in the field of social sciences.

The first position corresponds to the main author of the document, the one who had the idea and developed it in all the phases of the document and was in charge of coordinating the work with the rest of the authors. They are usually also the person who has drafted the document, adapting the contributions of the rest.

The corresponding author is responsible for submitting the manuscript and communicating with the journal during the review process, and does not have to be the same as the primary author.

Sometimes, the last named author is the most established scientist of the group and/or principal investigator of the project funding the work and his/her task is to be a final reviewer of the manuscript submission.

The order of the remaining authors is decided in relation to their involvement in the work, with those who have made the most substantial contributions appearing first.

Often during the preparation of the manuscript, collaborators, such as paid research assistants or trainees, have been involved in data collection or data analysis. These collaborators should not be listed among the authors of the article if they have not contributed to the design of the study, and have not participated in the analysis of the data or in the writing of the manuscript. Their work should be recognised in the acknowledgments section.

If changes in authorship are requested after submission or publication of the paper, a letter of agreement to the changes signed by all authors must accompany the request.

[1] The authorship policy of the journal has been created following the  Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.