Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions

1.      Conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data;
2.      Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3.      Final approval of the version to be published.

Conditions 1, 2, and 3 must be met. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content, including the author list and author contribution statements.

The corresponding author is accountable to reached that all authors have agreed to be included in the manuscript, and have approved the manuscript submission to the journal, and for managing all communication between the journal and all co-authors, before and after publication. The corresponding author is also responsible for submitting a competing interests' statement on behalf of all authors of the paper.

In multi-group collaborations study, the senior member of each collaborating group should take responsibility for the contributions to the manuscript and will be responsible for ensuring transparency, reproducibility, retrievable for reanalysis, presentation accurately, foreseeing and minimizing obstacles to the sharing of data, code, and materials.

At the time submission, the corresponding author should take written permission from the authors of any unpublished material cited in the manuscript such as others' data, in press manuscripts, personal communications or work in preparation. The corresponding author also should obviously recognize any material within the manuscript, such as figures, that has been published earlier somewhere else and give written consent from authors of the previous work and/or publishers, as suitable, for the re-use of such material.

The corresponding author is accountable for the accuracy of all content in the manuscript proof, including the names of coauthors, addresses and affiliations after manuscript acceptance.

Order of the author should be based on the relative contribution towards the study and writing the manuscript. Any changes to the author list after submission manuscript to the journal, such as a change in the order of the authors or the deletion or addition of authors, should be approved by every author of the manuscript.  The JKIMSU editors are not responsible to examine or adjudicate authorship disputes before or after publication. If such disagreements cannot be resolved amongst authors, then it should be informed to the related institutional authority.

The primary affiliation for each author should be the institution where the majority of their work was done. If an author has subsequently changed the job then the current address may also be stated.

For a study from a single institute, the number of contributors should not exceed six. For a case-report, brief communication, letter to the editor, and review article the number of contributors should not exceed four. A justification should be included if the number of contributors exceeds these limits.