Authorship and Contributorship

The authors of the publication should be those who have made a significant contribution to the idea, development, execution, or interpretation of the research presented. All those who have contributed significantly should be listed as co-authors. If there are research participants who have made significant contributions in a specific area of the project, they should also be mentioned as persons who contributed to this study in a significant way.

If an article has more than one author, the contribution of each research participant must be explicitly stated in the 'Contributions' section immediately following the main text of the article. Contributions are described using the 14 standard roles from the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy):

Conceptualization
Data Curation
Formal Analysis
Funding Acquisition
Investigation
Methodology
Project Administration
Resources
Software Development
Supervision
Validation
Visualization
Writing – Original Draft
Writing – Review & Editing

The contributions of each author should be listed as a bullet-point list or table, with roles separated by commas. Example:

Ivanov A.A.: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – Original Draft.
Petrova B.S.: Formal Analysis, Visualization.

The list of research participants (e.g., technicians, consultants, lab assistants) may exceed the number of article authors if their contributions do not meet authorship criteria (e.g., lack of intellectual participation or approval of the final work). However, the number of authors cannot exceed the number of participants who directly contributed to the research. Authorship requires significant intellectual engagement and accountability for the article’s content.

If an article has a single author, specifying contributor roles in the research is not mandatory but is encouraged.

All authors must disclose any financial or other potential conflicts of interest - see Disclosure of Competing Interests section.