Authorship and Contributorship Policy
Scholarly Contribution • Transparency • Accountability
Authorship and Contributorship Policy
Journal of FoodSecure Indonesia requires authorship to accurately reflect substantial scholarly contributions to research in food security, food systems, food availability and access, nutrition security, agricultural supply chains, food resilience, food policy, sustainable food production, food technology, community food systems, and related fields.
SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTION CRediT TAXONOMY FULL ACCOUNTABILITY
Authorship represents both academic credit and responsibility. A person should be listed as an author only when they have made a meaningful intellectual contribution to the research and accept responsibility for the integrity, accuracy, transparency, ethical conduct, and scholarly quality of the published work.
1. Criteria for Authorship
All listed authors must demonstrate substantial scholarly involvement in the study. Authorship should normally include all of the following:
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Substantial Research Contribution Significant contribution to the research problem, food-security framework, food-system analysis, study design, household or community data collection, food-access assessment, nutritional measurement, agricultural or supply-chain analysis, laboratory investigation, methodology, statistical analysis, policy analysis, or interpretation of findings. |
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Intellectual Contribution to the Manuscript Active participation in drafting the manuscript or critically revising its food-security argument, conceptual framework, methodology, food-system analysis, nutrition interpretation, policy discussion, sustainability implications, or scholarly contribution. |
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Final Approval Review and approval of the final manuscript, including the accuracy of author names, affiliations, food-security data, nutritional or agricultural findings, food-system indicators, declarations, policy implications, and references. |
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Accountability Agreement to take responsibility for the author's contribution and to cooperate in resolving questions concerning food-security data, nutritional measurements, agricultural data, laboratory analysis, household or community information, policy analysis, research ethics, research integrity, authorship, or other aspects of the published work. |
Activities That Do Not Alone Qualify for Authorship
The following activities, when performed alone, are generally insufficient to justify authorship:
| • Providing research funding only | • Providing access to communities, households, farms, food programs, laboratories, or food-system datasets only |
| • General academic, programmatic, or administrative supervision | • Holding a governmental, institutional, agricultural, food-industry, or managerial position |
| • Routine data entry, sample handling, participant coordination, or clerical assistance | • Language editing, proofreading, translation, or formatting only |
| • Providing food samples, laboratory equipment, agricultural facilities, software, or logistical support only | • General encouragement, networking, or mentorship without scholarly contribution |
Individuals providing these forms of assistance may be recognized in the Acknowledgments section, subject to their permission where appropriate.
2. Author Contribution Statement – CRediT
Every accepted manuscript must include an Author Contribution Statement. Authors are encouraged to use the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to identify each author's contribution transparently.
| Conceptualization Development of research ideas, food-security problems, nutrition-security questions, food-system hypotheses, food-resilience models, or conceptual frameworks. |
Methodology Development or design of quantitative, qualitative, mixed, nutritional, agricultural, laboratory, survey, food-system, policy-analysis, or intervention methods. |
| Formal Analysis Statistical, nutritional, agricultural, food-system, supply-chain, household, policy, sustainability, or other analytical work. |
Investigation Conducting household surveys, community assessments, food-consumption studies, nutritional measurements, farm or market observations, laboratory analyses, food-program evaluations, or empirical data collection. |
| Data Curation Collecting, cleaning, coding, anonymizing, organizing, documenting, or maintaining food-security, household, nutrition, agricultural, market, supply-chain, or laboratory datasets. |
Software Statistical coding, food-system modeling, nutritional analysis, GIS processing, supply-chain analysis, database development, or creation of analytical tools. |
| Validation Verification of food-security indicators, nutritional measurements, laboratory results, survey instruments, agricultural measurements, models, calculations, or research outputs. |
Visualization Preparation of research tables, figures, food-system diagrams, nutrition charts, supply-chain maps, policy frameworks, or data visualizations. |
| Writing – Original Draft Preparation of the initial scholarly manuscript. |
Writing – Review & Editing Critical intellectual review and substantive manuscript revision. |
| Resources Provision of essential food samples, datasets, nutritional instruments, agricultural materials, laboratory facilities, community access, or other resources combined with scholarly contribution. |
Supervision Intellectual oversight and scholarly guidance of the research process. |
| Project Administration Coordination and management of research activities. |
Funding Acquisition Acquisition of financial support for the research project. |
Note: Assignment of a CRediT role does not automatically qualify an individual for authorship. The individual must also satisfy the journal's authorship requirements and accept accountability.
3. Example of Author Contribution Statement
Example – Household Food Security / Nutrition Research
Author Contributions: A.B.: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Writing – Original Draft. C.D.: Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Validation, Visualization. E.F.: Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing. All authors approved the final manuscript and agreed to be accountable for their contributions.
Example – Food Systems / Agricultural Supply Chain Research
Author Contributions: A.B.: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – Original Draft. C.D.: Investigation, Data Curation, Formal Analysis. E.F.: Validation, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
4. Author Order
Author order must be determined and agreed upon collectively by the author group before manuscript submission. The journal does not assign or determine author order.
The authorship list and order must be consistent across the submitted manuscript, OJS metadata, Author Contribution Statement, declarations, supplementary data, and final published article.
5. Corresponding Author
One author must be identified as the corresponding author and serve as the primary contact between the journal and all co-authors.
| ✓ Ensures all authors approve manuscript submission | ✓ Verifies author names, affiliations, email, and ORCID information |
| ✓ Coordinates responses to reviewers | ✓ Ensures all authors approve substantive revisions |
| ✓ Verifies funding, ethics, permits, and Conflict of Interest Statements | ✓ Coordinates Data Availability, laboratory, field, or supplementary-material statements where applicable |
| ✓ Coordinates final proof approval | ✓ Responds to post-publication methodological or research-integrity inquiries when necessary |
6. Unacceptable Authorship Practices
| ✕ Guest / Honorary Authorship Adding senior academics, government officials, community leaders, agricultural managers, food-industry executives, institutional leaders, or respected individuals who did not make sufficient scholarly contributions. |
✕ Ghost Authorship Excluding individuals who made substantial contributions to food-security assessment, nutritional analysis, food-system research, laboratory work, policy analysis, or manuscript preparation that qualify for authorship. |
| ✕ Gift / Reciprocal Authorship Exchanging or granting authorship without genuine scholarly contribution. |
✕ Purchased Authorship Buying, selling, or transferring authorship positions. |
| ✕ Coercive Authorship Requiring inclusion because of supervisory, governmental, community, agricultural, institutional, managerial, or professional authority. |
✕ Unauthorized Authorship Listing a person without their knowledge and approval. |
7. Changes to Authorship
Addition, removal, or rearrangement of authors after submission must be exceptional and supported by a clear explanation and written consent from all affected authors.
| BEFORE ACCEPTANCE May be considered with full written agreement |
AFTER ACCEPTANCE Exceptional and subject to editorial approval |
AFTER PUBLICATION May require a formal Correction Notice |
8. Authorship Disputes
The Editorial Team may request explanations and documentation when an authorship dispute arises. However, the journal does not normally adjudicate disputes concerning who should or should not qualify as an author. Unresolved disputes may be referred to the authors' institution, research-integrity office, ethics committee, research authority, or another appropriate body. Editorial processing may be suspended until the dispute is resolved.
9. Artificial Intelligence and Authorship
Artificial intelligence tools, large language models, generative AI systems, and AI-based food or agricultural analytical platforms must not be listed as authors or co-authors. AI cannot accept accountability, approve a manuscript, declare conflicts of interest, or take responsibility for research integrity. Relevant AI-assisted activities, including AI-supported writing, coding, food-system modeling, image analysis, nutrition-data processing, forecasting, or analytical interpretation, must instead be disclosed according to the journal's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Policy.
Authorship Checklist Before Submission
| ✓ Every listed author has made a genuine scholarly contribution | ✓ No eligible contributor has been omitted |
| ✓ Author order has been approved by all authors | ✓ All authors approved the submitted manuscript |
| ✓ Author Contribution Statement is complete | ✓ Corresponding author has been identified |
| ✓ OJS metadata matches the manuscript | ✓ Ethics, household/community data, laboratory, food-safety, field, and supplementary-material statements are accurate where applicable |
| ✓ AI-assisted activities have been disclosed where required | ✓ All authors accept responsibility for the published work |
Authorship Principle
In Journal of FoodSecure Indonesia, authorship is based on substantive intellectual contribution and accountability. Academic rank, governmental or institutional authority, community leadership, access to households, farms, food programs, laboratories, food-system datasets, agricultural facilities, funding alone, routine technical assistance, supervisory status, or professional seniority does not by itself justify authorship.
