MCSA Authorship Guidelines
The Primary and Co-Primary Investigators (PI's) for the overall study will be the first two authors of the primary manuscript. The PI and Co-PI for each contributing center will be listed in descending order from the center with the most enrolled patients to the center with the least. Only two authors will be considered from each contributing center. Surgical Infections allows a maximum of 35 authors to be listed. Any additional authors will be listed at the conclusion of the manuscript as members of the "SIS Study Group".
For all subsequent and secondary manuscripts constructed using data from the primary study, authorship will be adjusted according to the contribution to that particular manuscript. The original PI and the Scientific Studies committee chair must approve all subsequent analyses. Additionally, all original contributing authors must be given a reasonable opportunity to contribute to the manuscript.