Authorship Policy
All authors and all contributors should specify their individual contributions in the authorship form of BJPain. BJPain has particularly sensitive to guest and ghost authorship. A total of nine authors are acceptable for this journal. Work specific author details are available in manuscript categories.
• The BJPain will not publish any paper unless the signatures of all authors are there.
• Please include written consent of any cited individual(s) noted in acknowledgment or personal communication.
Authorship
Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it and to have approved the submitted version (and any substantially modified version that involves the author's contribution to the study); and to have agreed both to be personally accountable for the author's own contributions.Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the appropriate portions of the content. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding, the collection of data or general supervision of the research group does not justify authorship. However, it will not be possible to review the individual author role and therefore, the declaration of the authors will be the final. However, in case of any appeal or complaints, it will be reviewed and the author list could be revised or may be a subject of matter of article retraction.
Alteration to authorship
Any change in authors after initial submission must be approved by all the authors. This applies to addition, deletion, change of order to the authors or contribution being attributed differently. Any alterations must be explained to the Editor. The Editor may contact any of the authors and/or contributors to ascertain whether they have agreed to any alteration.
Corresponding authors
Corresponding authors are responsible for ensuring that all listed authors have approved the manuscript before submission, including the names and order of authors, and that all authors receive the submission and all substantive correspondence with editors, as well as the full reviews, verifying that all data, figures, materials (including reagents), and code, even those developed or provided by other authors, comply
with the transparency and reproducibility standards of both the field and the journal.
This responsibility includes but is not limited to:
• Foreseeing and minimizing obstacles to the sharing of data/materials/code described in the work. The corresponding author should be responsible for managing these requirements across the author group and ensuring that the entire author group is fully aware of and in compliance with the best practices in the
discipline of publication.
Contributors should be acknowledged
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the acknowledgement section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance or a department chair who provided only general support. Financial and material
support should also be acknowledged. Groups of persons who have contributed materially to the paper but whose contributions do not justify authorship may be listed under a heading such as “clinical investigators”
or “participating investigators”, and their function of contribution should be described clearly-for example, “served as scientific advisors”, “critically reviewed the study proposal”, “collected data” or “provided and
cared for study patients”.
Because readers may infer their endorsement of the data and conclusions, all person must give written permission to be acknowledged. All acknowledgements should be listed in the Acknowledgement field when submitting your manuscript.
Preprint sharing and citation
BJPain encourage posting of preprints of primary research manuscripts on preprint servers, authors’ or institutional websites, and open communications between researchers whether on community preprint servers or preprint commenting platforms. Preprints are defined as an author’s version of a research manuscript prior to formal peer review at a journal, which is deposited on a public server;
preprints may be posted at any time during the peer review process. Posting of preprints is not
considered prior publication and will not jeopardize consideration at BJPain. Manuscripts posted on preprint servers will not be taken into account when determining the advance provided by a study under consideration at a BJPain.
Role of the funding source
• All sources of funding should be declared as an acknowledgment at the end of the text. • At the end of the Materials and Methods section, under a subheading "Role of the funding source", authors must describe the role of the study sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication
• If the funding source had no such involvement, the authors should declare non-funding status