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  • After many months of work, you and your colleagues are ready to submit your research paper to an academic journal.

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Common Authorship Terms

Determining Author Order

Disciplines have different conventions for determining authorship order. These may be written or unwritten practices.

Different practices across disciplines can lead to conflicts, particularly when research teams are large, interdisciplinary, or international. 

Download our resource guide for making authorship decisions in collaborative projects.

This includes an Authorship Agreement that you can use to document authorship-related decisions made over the course of the project. 



Review this case study for help in thinking about how to handle complex authorship situations.