Acta Biochimica Indonesiana recognizes authorship as an acknowledgment of substantial intellectual contributions to scholarly work and a responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of the published research. All individuals identified as authors must have made meaningful contributions to the manuscript and must be prepared to take responsibility for their respective contributions.

The journal adopts authorship criteria consistent with the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and uses the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to promote transparency in reporting individual contributions.

Authorship Criteria

Authorship should be based on the following four criteria:

1. Substantial contribution to the conception or design of the study, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of research data.

2. Drafting the manuscript or critically reviewing it for important intellectual content.

3. Final approval of the version to be published.

4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work and to ensure that concerns regarding the accuracy or integrity of any part of the research are appropriately investigated and resolved.

All listed authors must satisfy these criteria. Individuals who contributed to the research but do not fulfill the requirements for authorship should be appropriately acknowledged.

Acquisition of funding, general supervision, administrative assistance, technical support, or language editing alone does not justify authorship.

Author Contributions

Authors are required to provide an Author Contributions statement describing their individual roles in the research and manuscript preparation. Contributions should be reported using the CRediT taxonomy, including relevant roles such as conceptualization, methodology, investigation, formal analysis, data curation, validation, visualization, writing, supervision, project administration, and funding acquisition.

Multiple authors may share the same role, and individual authors may contribute in more than one capacity. The contribution statement must accurately reflect the work performed by each author and must be approved by all authors before submission.

CRediT declarations provide transparency regarding individual contributions but do not independently determine eligibility for authorship.

Corresponding Author Responsibilities

The corresponding author serves as the primary contact between the authors and the editorial office throughout submission, peer review, publication, and post-publication correspondence.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the author list, affiliations, and contribution statements are accurate; that all authors have reviewed and approved the submitted manuscript; and that all required declarations regarding funding, ethical approval, and potential conflicts of interest have been provided.

The corresponding author must also communicate editorial decisions and revision requests to all co-authors and ensure their agreement with the final manuscript.

Changes in Authorship

The authorship list and author order should be determined collectively before manuscript submission.

Any proposed addition, removal, or rearrangement of authors after submission must be accompanied by a written explanation from the corresponding author and documented agreement from all affected authors, including any author being added or removed.

Changes requested after manuscript acceptance will be considered only under exceptional circumstances and must receive editorial approval before publication. If a justified authorship change is approved after publication, an appropriate correction notice may be issued.

The editorial office may suspend manuscript processing while an unresolved authorship concern is being investigated.

Authorship Disputes and Misrepresentation

Guest authorship, honorary authorship, ghost authorship, and the intentional omission of qualified contributors are inconsistent with the journal's publication ethics.

Any concerns regarding authorship attribution or contributor responsibilities will be assessed in accordance with the journal's Publication Ethics Policy and relevant guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Where disputes cannot be resolved through documentation and communication with the authors, the journal may refer the matter to the relevant institutions for investigation.

Authors are expected to resolve authorship disagreements before submission whenever possible.

For further guidance, please refer to the ICMJE Recommendations and the journal's Publication Ethics Policy.