Authorship & Contributorship

Authorship records scholarly contribution and accountability. Each listed author must make a substantive contribution to the work, participate in drafting or critical intellectual revision, approve the final version and accept accountability for the integrity of the work.

Contributions and acknowledgements

Provide a contribution statement describing each author’s role, preferably using CRediT terminology. Funding acquisition, routine supervision, administrative support, language editing or data collection alone does not automatically establish authorship. Acknowledge contributors who do not meet all authorship requirements, with their permission. Disclose paid writing or editing assistance and its funding.

Corresponding author

The corresponding author confirms that all authors approve submission, author order, affiliations and declarations, and coordinates communication. Enter every author accurately in OJS, including name, affiliation, country, email and ORCID where available. A separate title page must hold identifying information for double-anonymised review.

Changes and disputes

Request any addition, removal or reordering of authors in writing, explaining the reason and supplying the agreement of all affected authors. Changes after acceptance require editorial approval; post-publication changes are documented through a notice where appropriate. Editors may pause processing while a dispute is resolved by the authors’ institutions.

Prohibited practices

Gift, guest, ghost and purchased authorship are unacceptable. AI systems cannot be authors because they cannot take responsibility or approve the work. Authors remain responsible for any assistance disclosed under the AI policy.

Policy enquiries: editor@jmhmr.com · Updated 1 October 2026.