Authorship and Contributorship Policy

The Mindoro Journal of Social Sciences and Development Studies (MJSSDS) upholds the principles of transparency, accountability, and academic integrity in scholarly publishing. Authorship is limited to individuals who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the research and manuscript preparation.

To qualify as an author, an individual must have made significant contributions to one or more of the following: conceptualization and design of the study; data collection, acquisition, analysis, or interpretation; drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content; and reviewing and approving the final version of the manuscript prior to submission and publication. All authors must agree to be accountable for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work and must consent to its submission to the journal.

MJSSDS adopts the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to promote transparency in author contributions. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work.

• The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed by all authors

• The role(s) of all authors should be listed, using the relevant above categories

• Authors may have contributed in multiple roles

• CRediT in no way changes the journal’s criteria to qualify for authorship

Upon submission, authors are required to specify their individual contributions using one or more of the following CRediT roles, as applicable:

Term	Definition
Conceptualization	Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims
Methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models
Software	Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components
Validation	Verification, whether as part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs
Formal analysis	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data
Investigation	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing experiments or data/evidence collection
Resources	Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools
Data Curation	Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse
Writing – Original Draft	Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation)
Writing – Review & Editing	Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work through critical review, commentary, or revision at pre- or post-publication stages
Visualization	Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically data visualization and presentation
Supervision	Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team
Project administration	Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution
Funding acquisition	Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication

Adopted from: Allen et al. (2018) and Brand et al (2015).

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all eligible contributors are appropriately listed as authors, that contributor roles are accurately reported, and that all co-authors have reviewed, approved, and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript.

Individuals who contributed to the study but do not meet the criteria for authorship, such as those providing technical assistance, administrative support, language editing, or general supervision without substantial intellectual contribution, should be appropriately recognized in the Acknowledgments section, subject to their consent.

The journal does not permit guest authorship, honorary authorship, or ghost authorship. Any request for changes in authorship—including addition, removal, or rearrangement of authors after manuscript submission—must be accompanied by a written justification and signed agreement from all listed authors, subject to editorial review and approval by the Mindoro Journal of Social Sciences and Development Studies Editorial Board.

In cases of authorship disputes, the journal reserves the right to suspend editorial processing until the matter is resolved through appropriate documentation or by the relevant affiliated institution(s), in accordance with recognized standards of publication ethics.