The Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AOEM) follows the recommendations for authorship by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE, 2019, http://www.icmje.org) and the Good Publication Practice Guidelines by the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE, 2019, http://kamje.or.kr). The Uniform Requirements by the ICMJE recommends authorship as follows. “Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published; and 4) agreement 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. Authors should meet conditions of 1, 2, 3, and 4.” Beyond the ICMJE recommendations, the KAMJE guidelines suggest that all authors should make a substantial intellectual contribution to the publication, the guidelines warn against authorship abuse, and list common types of abuse. Authorship is an important aspect of research publication, and all involved authors should agree whole contents of the document including authorship. Contributors should be differentiated from authors as recommended by the ICMJE.

AOEM accepts notice of equal contribution for the first or corresponding authors when the study was clearly performed by co-first or co-corresponding authors.

AOEM does not allow authorship correction after publication unless the editorial staff made an obvious mistake. Before publication, authorship can be changed in case when all authors request the authorship correction.

Declaration of Ethics Including Authorship

The corresponding author must declare research ethics including authorship by stating following sentences in the cover letter.

“All of the byline authors meet the ICMJE criteria for authorship. We well understand privilege and responsibility of the authorship of the scientific publications. We declare that we are keeping global and/or local guidelines of research and publication ethics strictly including authorship.”

All authors should describe details of individual author's position in the affiliated institution on the online submission system. (ex. professor, college lecturer, graduate student, researcher, college student, post-doc, middle and high school teacher, high school student, etc).