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PUBLICATION RULES IN THE UNIT
FOR THE AUTHORS
It is important to define who is an author and what is the way for a publication in the Unit, to do not be exposed to
responsability problems.
The manuscript must be consistant, have datas checked, it must not be published completely or partially elsewhere.
At last, the results of a work made in the Laboratory do not have to be communicated outside the Laboratory
without the authorisation of the person in charge of resarch, and anyhow, they can be communicated only in scientific
environment. Particulary, it is forbiden to speak with media about results not yet published or not related in a scientist
congress. Most of the important journals put embargo until the publication of the manuscript in a newspaper.
Who is an author To be an author, you must have participate in the work itself and you can have the responsability of
total or part of the work. To be qualified as an author (modified rules of the American Medical Association), you have to
satisfied at least one item in each of the 3 categories following :
I had an important participation in the paper’s intellectual contain ( project conception and design project
generation analysis and interpretation)
I wrote the manuscript or I red the manuscript and contribute for its intellectual contain.
I had a practical contribution ( statistic analysis funds technical, administrative responsabilities or on the material
support).
The author order on the paper will be function of the contribution degree to the paper generation. We consider that a
third of the draft is tied with the conception, the initial knowledge and the design of the project, a third correspond to the
obtaining of the technical result and management (a technical work only can not give an authorship). The writing of the
paper, its definitive ajustment until the acceptation correspond also to a third of the global work. As a rule, the first place
is for the person who writes the first draft, the last one is for the supervisor.
Moreover, a paper, before being sent, must answer to the totality of ethical datas (samples on human being, samples on
animals) ; financial supports must be clarified ; the missing or the presence of conflict of interest must be clarified.
Finally, the manuscript must be review by all the coauthors to every stage (first submission, second submission).
At last, partners, who did not enough contribute to appear as coauthors, must be mentionned in acknowledgements
and their agreement must be obtained.
It is essential that everyone of the seniors, everyone of the juniors must know these rules before the beginning of a work,
in such a way that he will not meet disappointment hard to live or situations that could endanger the research in the
Unit.