Number of Authors on RED

[samtheman]

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Anyone know if there is a limit on the # of authors? Couldn't find anything on GOOGLE

 

[Gfunk6]

I don't think there is a hard limit, as long as the Red Journal's requirements for authorship are met (see below). In practice, I don't think this is ever an issue (e.g. the Red Journal asking that you "prove" that listing so many co-authors is justified) except maybe for a truly ridiculous number of authors (>15) for a non-seminal manuscript.

F. Authorship Criteria

According to the "Uniform Requirements" (see Journal Style and Guidelines), all persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for its content. Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to
(1) conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data, and to
(2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, and to
(3) final approval of the version to be published.

All three criteria must be met. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding of collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group does not justify authorship. Any part of an article critical to its main conclusions must be the responsibility of at least one author.

In the case of corporate authorship, all members of the group must meet all criteria to justify authorship and inclusion in the byline. Those who do not meet these criteria should be listed (with their permission) in an Acknowledgments section.

The order of the authors must be agreed to by all co-authors before the manuscript is submitted for consideration.

 

[samtheman]

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