Authorship Policy

Definition of Author

The journal Teología adheres to the Heredia Declaration: Principles on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Publishing (2024)¹ and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).²

Therefore, an author is considered to be someone who makes significant intellectual contributions to the conception, conceptualisation, design, execution, data analysis or interpretation of the research, or article published as a result of it. In addition, he/she must have participated in the drafting of the manuscript and/or its revision. Therefore, an author has the capacity to create, make decisions, declare conflicts of interest and assume the responsibilities that may arise as a consequence of their publication.

Any other form of contribution to the article published in the journal should be acknowledged in the acknowledgements of the manuscript.

Artificial Intelligence and authorship

Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not meet the aforementioned criteria for authorship. It cannot assume responsibility for its work, nor can it declare conflicts of interest. Therefore, only a human being can be considered as an author.

The use of AI must be explicitly stated in the manuscript, indicating its role in the research and/or writing process, data analysis, generation of images and graphical materials, etc. It must be duly stated and cited indicating how and which tool was used.

Multiple authorship - CRediT Taxonomy

In the case of multiple authorship (more than 1 [one] author) each author must indicate their contribution to the article using the CRediT Taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). In this way, the work of all those involved in the research and writing process is credited and not only results but also processes are made visible.

CRediT identifies the following roles:

Data curation: management activities to produce metadata, clean data and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent re-use.

Formal analysis: applying statistical, mathematical, computational or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesise the study data.

Fundraising: obtaining financial support for the project that led to this publication.

Research: carrying out the research and development process, specifically conducting experiments or collecting data/evidence.

Methodology: developing or designing the methodology; modelling.

Project management: responsible for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.

Resources: provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory specimens, animals, instrumentation, computing resources or other analytical tools.

Software: programming, software development; software design; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.

Supervision: responsible for oversight and leadership in the planning and execution of the research activity, including mentoring of staff external to the core team.

Validation: verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall replicability/reproducibility of the results/experiments and other research outputs.

Visualisation: preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work, specifically visualisation and presentation of data.

Writing - original draft: preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including translation if substantial).

Writing - reviewing and editing: preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, discussion or revision, including pre or post publication phases.

Not all authors will have assumed all roles. In addition, two or more authors may assume the same role.

In addition, a correspondence author must be designated who is responsible for communicating with the editor and responding to requests for information.

More information about CRediT can be found at https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles-defined/

Changes in authorship

Changes in authorship after submission of the manuscript must be justified and approved by all authors and the journal. They must be communicated to the editor with justification.

Authorship Conflicts

In case of disagreements over authorship, the journal Teología will make the final decision based on the evidence presented by the parties involved.

Institutional affiliation

The correct mention of institutional affiliation facilitates the correct identification of authors and the scientific production of the institution in which they carry out their research.

Authors are advised to keep in mind the guidelines regarding the Institutional Affiliation of their institution when submitting their manuscript for review, and to include the ROR ID of their institution if available.

Identificadores Persitentes (PIDs)

ORCID

In order to facilitate the correct identification of the author, as well as to later gather their scientific production in databases, authors must provide a valid ORCID identifier. If you do not have one, you can generate it at https://orcid.org.

 

ROR ID

The Research Organisation Registry (ROR) is a persistent identifier for research organisations. ROR facilitates the disambiguation of the names of institutions and connects them to researchers and research outputs. The ROR ID can be found at https://ror.org/. If you cannot find your institution you should request an ID.

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¹ Penabad-Camacho, L., Penabad-Camacho, M. A., Mora-Campos, A., Cerdas-Vega, G., Morales-López, Y., Ulate-Segura, M., Méndez-Solano, A., Nova-Bustos, N., Vega-Solano, M. F., & Castro-Solano, M. M. (2024). Declaración de Heredia: Principios sobre el uso de inteligencia artificial en la edición científica. Revista Electrónica Educare, 28(S), https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.28-S.19967

² What constitutes authorship? (Latin American Spanish). (2014). Committee on Publication Ethics. https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.3.4