Guidelines on authorship of medical papers. - Annals of Internal Medicine, 104(2), p.269-274, 1986 .

In the belief that authors and potential authors may be helped by explicit statements of justification for authorship, the following guidelines are offered for research papers, case-series analyses, case reports, review articles, and editorials. These guidelines are based on statements issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)that were published recently (1-3)and will eventually be incorporated into the Committee's document, "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals


GUIDELINES ON AUTHORSHIP OF MEDICAL PAPERS