Authorship

Authorship carries both credit and accountability. Eureka Herba Indonesia applies the criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and requires that the record of authorship be accurate, verifiable, and agreed by everyone named.

1. Criteria for Authorship

A person qualifies as an author only if all four of the following conditions are met:

  1. substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data;
  2. drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
  3. approval of the final version to be published; and
  4. agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work, including ensuring that questions about its accuracy or integrity are investigated and resolved.

Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of a research group does not, by itself, justify authorship.

2. Contributors Who Are Not Authors

Those who contributed without meeting all four criteria are named in the Acknowledgements, with their contribution described, and with their written permission. This includes technical assistance, writing assistance, language editing, provision of materials or instruments, and general departmental support.

3. Prohibited Practices

  • Gift or honorary authorship: naming a person who made no substantive contribution, whether out of deference to seniority or for any other reason.
  • Ghost authorship: omitting a person who made a substantive contribution.
  • Guest authorship: adding a name to lend credibility to the work.
  • Commissioned authorship: procuring work from another and claiming it as one's own.
  • Adding authors after acceptance: the insertion of additional authors once a manuscript has been accepted, without a clear and documented explanation, is not permitted.

4. Validity of Names and Affiliations

The name and affiliation of every author must be valid, must be listed with that person's consent, and must be verifiable. The use of a fictitious identity, or the listing of a person's name without their knowledge, is a breach of academic integrity and is handled under the journal's publication ethics policy.

5. How Names Are Recorded

  • A name is recorded in two parts: given name and family name. Where a person's name consists of a single word, the same word is entered in both fields.
  • A family name is never abbreviated to a single letter, because it carries essential metadata for citation and indexing.
  • Academic titles, degrees, and positions are not included in the author name.
  • Authors are encouraged to supply an ORCID iD and to use a consistent form of their name across all publications.

6. How Affiliations Are Recorded

  • The affiliation gives the institution in full and unabbreviated, in the form used by that institution, and includes the institution, city, and country, separated by commas.
  • Superscript numerals distinguish different institutions, not different authors. Where all authors share one affiliation, no numerals are required.
  • Where an author holds more than one affiliation, each is numbered.
  • The corresponding author is marked with an asterisk and a valid email address is given.
  • Affiliations are recorded consistently across all articles by the same author and across all issues.

7. Order of Authors and the Corresponding Author

The order of authors is determined by the authors themselves and reflects their relative contributions; the journal does not intervene. The corresponding author acts for all co-authors in dealings with the journal, is responsible for ensuring that every co-author has approved the submission, and remains the point of contact after publication.

8. Author Contribution Statement

Every article carries an Author Contribution Statement describing what each author did, identified by initials. Model wording:

Author Contributions. AB: conceptualisation, methodology, writing of the original draft. CD: data collection, formal analysis. EF: supervision, review and editing. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

9. Changes to Authorship

Any addition, removal, or reordering of authors before acceptance requires a written request from the corresponding author stating the reason, accompanied by written confirmation from every author, including the one added or removed. Requests received after acceptance are considered only in exceptional circumstances and, if granted after publication, are recorded in a published corrigendum so that the record remains transparent.

10. Disputes

The journal does not adjudicate disputes over authorship. Where a dispute arises, consideration of the manuscript is suspended and the matter is referred to the authors' institutions for resolution, following the COPE guidance on authorship disputes. Consideration resumes once the institutions have reached a documented resolution.