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Workshop 3: Authorship, Author By-line Names Address Introduction In today’s workshop we consider the vexed question of authorship. Who should be included as an author on your paper? Or alternatively, what contribution is required for someone to qualify as an author? We also examine issues as the order of names on a paper, the format for citing your own name on a paper and address for correspondence. These issues may seem citing trivial, but an understanding of them can prevent problems and disputes from occurring in future. Who should be an author? The part of paper that comes immediately after the title is the author’s by-line, which is a list of people who made an important contribution to the published paper. Writing this by-line is usually straight-forward, but great judgment is needed in some cases when deciding on whether someone should be included a co-author, and also the order in which the names of co-authors are cited. Dispute over a co-authorship can arise, and as pointed out by Day (1998) “reasonable, rational, colleagues can become bitter enemies solely because they could not agree on whose names should be listed or in what order.” After all the only people who never get upset about authorship are the people who do not publish papers! Comprehensive guidelines on authorship are published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (). This organization states that: “Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.” Failure to take responsibility for the content of a paper is important as the following