Policies for authors

Concurrent publication

Submissions must be original. Concurrent submission of the same manuscript to multiple proceedings or conferences is considered unethical and is strictly prohibited. Previously published work may be considered only in exceptional cases (e.g., prior presentation as an abstract, part of a lecture or thesis, or as an electronic preprint), provided this is disclosed at submission.

Confidentiality

Authors must respect the confidentiality of data obtained through professional services, including peer review. Such information must not be used without explicit written consent.

Open access policy

Authors publishing in this proceedings retain copyright and grant publication under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work, even for commercial purposes, provided the original author is credited.

Creative Commons license types:

• BY – reuse is only allowed if the original work is appropriately credited
• NC – reuse is only allowed for non-commercial purposes
• ND – reuse is only allowed of the work in its entirety – no portions or edits
• SA – reuse is only allowed if the new work is made available under the same license as the original

EWA Publishing primarily uses the CC BY license to support maximal openness. A full citation, including the license under which the content was originally published, must accompany any reuse.

Authorship policy

Authorship was introduced with the intention of recognizing individual author contributions, reducing authorship disputes and facilitating collaboration. Authorship statement offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work.

• The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed by all authors
• The listed role(s) of all authors in the authorship statement should use the relevant categories below
• Authors may have contributed in multiple roles
• Authorship statement in no way changes the proceedings’ criteria to qualify for authorship

Authorship statement (if applicable) should be provided during the submission process and will appear above the “acknowledgment” section of the published paper.

The taxonomy of author contributions are listed below.

Term	Definition
Conceptualization	Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims
Methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models; program coding
Data collection	Resource to the necessary resource parties to be responsible for data collection, organization, clarification, and basic descriptive statistical analysis, so that the data can be used for further research or analysis
Data analysis	The application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data involves using rigorous methodologies to interpret and combine data from studies, for ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and validity of the research findings.
Validation	Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs
Investigation	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the literature review, experiment/research design
Writing	Drafting, developing, and/or presenting the published work, specifically involving the writing of the initial manuscript draft (including significant translation efforts)
Review & editing	Drafting, developing, and/or presenting the published work by members of the original research group, specifically involving critical review, commentary, or revision – including stages before and after publication.
Visualization	Drafting, developing, and/or presenting the published work, specifically involving visualization and data presentation
Project administration	Management and coordination responsibilities for planning and executing the research activity; group task distribution
Funding acquisition	Securing financial support for the project that led to this publication

*Reproduced from Brand et al. (2015), Learned Publishing 28(2), with permission of the authors.

Sample:

Zhang San: Conceptualization, Investigation; Priya Singh: Data collection, Data analysis; Si Li: Data analysis, Writing; Jan Jansen: Review & editing, Visualization; Ajay Kumar: Project administration, Funding acquisition