Authorship Guidelines

Authorship

1. Any publication from the CNFUN will be authored using the rules laid out below for CNFUN members, paid staff members, non-paid contributors and other students. 
2. CNFUN will be included as the final author in each publication where CNFUN is the primary network. 
3. Sunset Clause – Authors pursuing a topic will have up to one year from the time of data release to produce a scientific work. Lack of substantial progress within that year (as evidenced by production of an abstract and a significant body of analyses and first draft of manuscript) will relinquish their authorship priority. Extensions can be granted if there are documented problems with data quality, acquisition, etc. by written submission to the CNFUN Steering Committee. 
4. At least one CNFUN Steering Committee member must be on all publications that use CNFUN data. The steering committee member is responsible for ensuring data integrity and the interests of CNFUN
5. CNFUN will be listed as an author. The appendix should list the names and affiliations of current or most recent CNFUN site investigators, steering committee members and the director.  

For CNFUN Members

Their name(s) will be included in the author’s list when one of the following conditions is met:

The member initiated the project resulting in a publication OR the member is involved in the working group for this project OR the member is involved in the publication and is put forward by the project initiator to the CNFUN Steering Committee to be an author. 

For paid staff members:

Their name(s) will be included in the author’s list when one of the following conditions is met:

The staff member initiated the project resulting in a publication and it was decided upon up front by those involved that they would have their name within the author’s list OR the staff member was involved in the project at a later date, they have contributed to the writing of the publication and the first author has received approval from the CNFUN Steering Committee to include their name. 

For non-paid contributors (Post-doctoral Fellows, Medical Trainees, Graduate Students):

Their name(s) will be included in the author’s list when one of the following conditions is met:

The student initiated the project resulting in a publication and it was decided upon up front by those involved that they would have their name within the author’s list OR the project is part of the student’s PhD or MSc. dissertation OR the student made an active intellectual contribution. 

For other students (Medical, Co-op, Undergraduate):

Please see the above policy for non-paid contributors.

Publications/Manuscripts/Abstracts

1. Manuscripts resulting from CNFUN data must be reviewed by at least one CNFUN Steering Committee member prior to submission for publication. 
2. A copy of abstracts and manuscripts resulting from local and/or CNFUN Database must be forwarded to the CNFUN Coordinating Centre. 

International Comparisons

1. Studies on international comparisons will be authored by the principal investigators from each of the Networks together with the names of the Networks. Members of the Networks will be named as part of their respective Networks.