Applied Physics A - Important announcement: Authorship and Author Contributions

Authorship in Applied Physics A

Authors are strongly advised to include the correct author names and the order of authors at the time of submission. See below for the journal policies regarding requests for changes in authorship:

• During Revision: Except in well justified cases, changes to authorship during manuscript revision is generally not permitted. Please note that requests for adding authors with justifications such as "provided assistance in reviewing the text of article" or "helped with language editing", are usually declined. All other requests are subject to approval by the Editor-in-Chief. 
• After acceptance: changes of authorship by adding or deleting authors, and/or changes in Corresponding Author, and/or changes in the sequence of authors are not accepted after acceptance of a manuscript.

The full journal policies regarding this topic can be found in the "Changes to Authorship" subsection of the “Authorship Principles (this opens in a new tab)” section in the submission guidelines.

Author Contributions in Applied Physics A

Applied Physics A requests authors to include an “Author Contributions” statement in their submitted manuscripts. The statement should be placed at the end of the manuscript (near declarations), and should specify the type of contribution made by every co-author in the manuscript, in order to promote transparency.

For some examples of “Author Contribution (this opens in a new tab)” statements, please visit the “Authorship Principles” section in the submission guidelines. For example:

“All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by [full name], [full name] and [full name]. The first draft of the manuscript was written by [full name] and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.”