Authorship Criteria

Authorship Criteria

Quagga: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Biologi follows the authorship criteria recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). A person listed as an author must meet all four of the following criteria:

1. Substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data;
2. Drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3. Approval of the final version to be published; and
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work, ensuring that questions about its accuracy or integrity are investigated and resolved.

Contributors who are not authors. Those who contributed but do not meet all criteria (for example, providing funding, general supervision, technical help, language editing, or data collection only) should be named in the Acknowledgements section.

Corresponding author. The corresponding author is responsible for communication with the journal during submission, review, and publication, and for ensuring that all co-authors have approved the submitted and revised versions.

Author order and changes. The order of authors is decided jointly by the authors before submission. Any addition, removal, or reordering of authors after submission requires a written request explaining the reason, signed by all authors, and approval from the Editor-in-Chief. No changes are allowed after the article is published, except through a formal correction.

Unacceptable practices. Gift (honorary) authorship, ghost authorship, and the sale or purchase of authorship are not permitted. Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors (see our Generative AI Policy).

ORCID. All authors are encouraged, and corresponding authors are required, to provide an ORCID iD.