Authorship & Contributorship Policy

An author should have made a substantial intellectual or scholarly contribution to the work. Qualifying contributions may include developing the research concept, designing the methodology, conducting investigation, generating or curating data, performing formal analysis, developing software or analytical tools, interpreting findings, drafting the manuscript, or making substantial critical revisions to its intellectual content.

In addition to making a qualifying contribution, each author must approve the version submitted for publication, approve material revisions affecting the scholarly content, approve the final accepted version, and agree to be accountable for the integrity of their own contribution while cooperating appropriately with questions concerning the accuracy or integrity of the work as a whole.

Individuals who contribute to a manuscript but do not satisfy the criteria for authorship should normally be acknowledged as contributors rather than listed as authors.

ALFI uses the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to promote transparency concerning individual contributions to published research. Authors should identify the roles performed by each contributor as accurately as possible. More than one author may share the same role, and one author may perform multiple roles.

CRediT is used to describe contributions transparently and does not by itself determine whether an individual qualifies for authorship. A person may perform a contributor role without satisfying the journal's complete authorship criteria. Conversely, every listed author should be assigned roles that accurately reflect their contribution to the work.

The corresponding author serves as the principal contact between the author group and ALFI throughout submission, peer review, revision, production, publication, and relevant post-publication communication. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all co-authors are aware of the submission and have approved the submitted manuscript.

The corresponding author should ensure that author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers where supplied, contribution statements, competing-interest disclosures, funding information, ethical declarations, and other author-related metadata are accurate and approved by the relevant authors.

The corresponding author acts as a communication coordinator and does not automatically have greater ownership of the work or authority to alter the authorship list without the knowledge and agreement of the other affected authors.

The order in which authors are listed should be agreed upon collectively by the author group before submission. ALFI does not prescribe a universal interpretation of first, middle, or final authorship positions because disciplinary practices may differ. The journal expects the stated author order to represent a genuine agreement among the authors and not to result from coercion, status, or inappropriate influence.

Individuals who contributed to the research or manuscript but do not qualify for authorship may be recognized in the Acknowledgements section. Examples may include technical support, language assistance, administrative support, field assistance, access to facilities, general supervision insufficient for authorship, or other contributory assistance.

Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate permission from individuals who are named in acknowledgements when such identification could reasonably imply their endorsement of the work.

The authorship list should be finalized before submission. Requests to add, remove, replace, or reorder authors after submission must be exceptional, transparent, and supported by a clear explanation of why the change is necessary.

The journal may require written agreement from all existing authors and from any person being added or removed. The explanation should also include updated contribution information where applicable. ALFI may pause editorial processing while an authorship-change request is assessed.

A request will not automatically be approved merely because all listed authors agree. Editors may seek additional information where the proposed change raises concerns about authorship integrity, accountability, undisclosed contribution, coercion, conflicts of interest, or possible publication misconduct.

Changes in authorship after final acceptance are expected to be rare and require particularly careful editorial assessment. Publication may be delayed until the matter has been resolved. Once an article has been formally published as the Version of Record, authorship changes will normally require a transparent post-publication correction and may require further investigation where the change raises an integrity concern.

ALFI may assess whether its authorship policy appears to have been followed, but the journal is not normally the appropriate body to determine disputed factual claims regarding who performed particular research activities. Where authors cannot agree on authorship or author order, editorial processing may be suspended until the disagreement is resolved.

The journal may refer unresolved disputes to the authors' institution, employer, research-integrity office, ethics committee, funding body, or another competent authority capable of examining the relevant evidence. A manuscript may remain on hold while an institutional resolution is pending.

Generative artificial intelligence systems, large language models, automated writing systems, chatbots, software tools, algorithms, or other non-human technologies cannot be listed as authors or co-authors of manuscripts submitted to ALFI.

Authorship requires accountability, approval, responsibility, management of competing interests, and the capacity to respond to questions concerning the integrity of the work. These responsibilities cannot be assigned to an artificial intelligence system. Human authors remain fully responsible for all submitted and published content regardless of whether automated tools were used during research or manuscript preparation.

Collaborative groups, research networks, consortia, and multi-institutional teams may use group authorship where this accurately reflects the organization of the research. The manuscript should identify the group clearly and, where practical, distinguish individuals who satisfy authorship criteria from other contributors.

Group authorship must not be used to obscure accountability or to include individuals who did not participate appropriately in the work.

Authors are responsible for providing accurate names, affiliations, institutional information, email addresses, and other identifying metadata. Affiliations should reflect the institution or organization with which the author was appropriately associated in relation to the work and must not be fabricated or presented in a misleading manner.

ALFI encourages authors to provide authenticated ORCID identifiers to improve attribution, researcher identification, metadata quality, and interoperability across scholarly systems.

Where a contributor who legitimately qualifies for authorship dies or becomes permanently unable to participate before publication, the journal may retain the individual as an author when the contribution is adequately documented and the remaining authors confirm that the person had approved the work to the extent reasonably possible before becoming unable to do so. The circumstances may be disclosed appropriately where necessary for transparency.

Membership of the ALFI Editorial Team or Editorial Board does not prevent an individual from submitting scholarly work to the journal. However, editorial position must not confer preferential treatment or influence the peer-review process.

An editor or Editorial Board member who is an author, co-author, collaborator, supervisor, family member, institutional colleague with a relevant conflict, or otherwise has a competing interest in a manuscript must be excluded from reviewer selection, editorial assessment, access to confidential deliberation where appropriate, and the final publication decision. The manuscript must be assigned to an independent editor and undergo the same external peer-review requirements applied to other submissions.

Accurate authorship and contributor disclosure does not replace the requirement to disclose financial, institutional, professional, personal, or other competing interests. Authors must satisfy both the Authorship & Contributorship Policy and the journal's applicable Conflict of Interest Policy.

Credible concerns concerning authorship, undisclosed contributors, fabricated authors, authorship sale, coercion, ghost authorship, or other authorship irregularities identified after publication will be assessed under ALFI's Publication Ethics and Corrections & Retractions procedures.

Depending on the evidence and seriousness of the matter, an authorship issue may result in a correction, editorial notice, Expression of Concern, retraction, institutional referral, or another appropriate action designed to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.

Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Industry (ALFI) is affiliated with Yayasan Kalidaka Cendikia Nusantara and formally published by WISE Pendidikan Indonesia. Institutional affiliation, funding, academic rank, editorial position, or relationship with the publisher does not create an entitlement to authorship and must not override ALFI's contribution and accountability requirements.

This Authorship & Contributorship Policy should be read together with ALFI's Publication Ethics, Peer Review Process, Conflict of Interest Policy, Generative AI Policy, Corrections & Retractions Policy, Author Guidelines, and other relevant editorial policies. ALFI may revise this policy when necessary to reflect developments in responsible authorship, contributor transparency, research integrity, and scholarly publishing practice.