1. Authorship Guidelines:

• • XIJIR encourages responsible authorship practices to uphold academic integrity and equitable credit.
  • XIJIR generally limits authorship to five contributors to ensure clarity of contribution. In exceptional cases where interdisciplinary collaboration requires additional contributors, authors may submit.

  • To maintain issue diversity:

    • Authors may appear only once as first author and once as co-author in a single issue.

    • Repeated first-authorships across consecutive issues may be discouraged and deferred to future editions at the discretion of the editorial team.

  • Any detected pattern of excessive submissions by the same author(s) may result in delayed processing or an invitation to submit in later issues.

 

2. Author Contribution Statements 

For all manuscripts submitted to XIJIR, author contribution statements must be included when there are two or more authors. This policy is to acknowledge each author's contribution to the work.

Policy Guidelines:

1. Location in Manuscript: The Author Contribution Statement should be at the end of the manuscript, before the Reference section.
2. Mandatory Inclusion: Manuscripts with two or more authors must include this statement. Single-author manuscripts may omit this section.
3. Section Heading: The section should be labeled “Author Contributions”.
4. Format: List each author's contributions clearly and concisely. Contributions can be listed using the initials or full names of the authors, followed by their contributions. Example: Author Contributions:
   • J.D.: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – Original Draft
   • A.B.: Data Collection, Analysis
   • C.R.: Writing – Review & Editing, Supervision
5. Review and Approval: All authors must review and approve the Author Contribution Statement to ensure accuracy. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining approval from all co-authors.
6. Modification Post-Submission: Any modification to the Author Contribution Statement after submission requires agreement by all authors.

Failure to include an Author Contribution Statement in multi-author manuscripts will result in the manuscript being returned for revision. Manuscripts will not proceed to publication until this requirement is met.

 

For clarification or further information regarding this policy, authors should contact the editorial office of XIJIR.