Authorship, contribution & AI disclosure
Make every contribution visible.
Create a working record for ICMJE authorship criteria, the fourteen CRediT roles, acknowledgements, competing interests, ProWrite assistance, and human verification of AI use.
01 / Work and contributors
02 / ICMJE authorship check
Apply these criteria to every proposed author—not to the team as a whole.
Authorship check incomplete
Do not present the draft as demonstrating ICMJE authorship eligibility.
03 / Assistance and conflicts
04 / AI disclosure
Source standards
Credit and accountability are related—but not interchangeable.
A CRediT role documents contribution; it does not automatically confer authorship. Every author must satisfy the applicable authorship criteria, approve the final work, and accept accountability. AI tools cannot be authors.