Author(s) of a manuscript submitted to IJPBS are one who made substantial contributions to the manuscript work and has academic, social and other financial effects. Authors are bound to take the responsibility whole or part of the work accordingly and should identify the responsibility for each part of the work. They as a whole should take public responsibility for the appropriate part of the work .They should be confident enough among themselves for their ability, proficiency, expertise and integrity.

As per the ICJME guidelines, an Authorship should follow the following guidelines :

• Author should made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data.
• Author should drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content.
• Author should give the final approval of the version to be published.
• Author should agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
• Author should agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

All others who have contributed but do not fall in the category of authors can be given due credit by having their names listed under the Acknowledgement.If there are more than one author who have worked on a manuscript, one of them has to be identified as the ‘Corresponding Author’ who will be doing all the correspondence with the Journal Editorial office. This author in turn has to keep the other co-author/s informed about the proceedings and developments. According to the Authorship Policy of the Journal it is automatically understood that when a co-authored manuscript is submitted it is done only after the consent of all the authors involved and that they have approved of the content, the list of authors and the order of authors in the list.

Change in Authorship

The Journal allows change of authors, either by addition or deletion, before or after publication. The corresponding author must communicate to the IJPBS journal about any change of authorship before or after manuscript publication.It is understood that other existing authors understand and given consent to this change and it is the responsibility of the corresponding author to get the consent.Editor decides about considering the authorship change request and appropriate communication about acceptance or rejection would be sent to the corresponding author.

The journal also gets the guidance from COPE for this authorship policy

Please refer the following,

1. Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors. ICMJE. Available from http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html

2. Authorship. COPE .DOI:https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.3.3
3.  COPE Council.COPE Guidelines: A Short Guide to Ethical Editing for New Editors.May 2019
DOI:https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.8

4 Allegations of misconduct.COPE Council.COPE Flow charts and infographics-Fullset-English. Version 2:March 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.2.26

5. Fabricated data in a submitted and publisged article..COPE Council.COPE Flow charts and infographics-Fullset-English. Version 2:March 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.2.26

6.COPE Council.COPE Flow charts and infographics-Fullset-English. Version 2:March 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.2.26