Authorship and Author Contributions (CRediT)

The journal “Physical and Mathematical Education” supports transparent authorship and requires that only individuals who made a substantial contribution to the study and manuscript preparation are listed as authors.

1. Who qualifies as an author

Authorship is limited to those who made a substantial contribution to several of the following:

  • study idea and objectives;
  • research design, data collection/analysis/interpretation;
  • drafting the manuscript or critical scholarly revision;
  • approval of the final version and agreement to take responsibility for the content.

Funding, administrative oversight, or general supervision without a real scholarly contribution does not qualify for authorship.

2. Authorship confirmation at submission

At submission, the corresponding author confirms that:

  • all listed authors made a substantial contribution;
  • all authors have reviewed the manuscript and agree to its submission;
  • any authorship changes will be reported to the editorial office with reasons and confirmation of agreement from all authors.

3. CRediT contributions — required after acceptance

The journal uses CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to provide a structured description of author contributions.

To preserve double-blind peer review, a detailed CRediT contribution statement is not required in the reviewer-facing manuscript file at submission.

After an editorial decision “accept” / “accept with revisions”, authors must provide a detailed CRediT author contribution statement for each author. The statement will be included in the final published article under “Author Contributions”.

A detailed CRediT contribution statement is mandatory when the manuscript has more than three authors (4+) or is submitted on behalf of a team/group. For manuscripts with 2–3 authors, CRediT contributions are recommended; the editorial office may request a contribution statement when needed (e.g., if authorship transparency requires clarification).

4. Template (for the final version)

Author Contributions (CRediT):

Author 1 – Conceptualization; Methodology; Writing – original draft.
Author 2 – Data curation; Formal analysis; Visualization; Writing – review & editing.
Author 3 – Project administration; Validation; Supervision; Writing – review & editing.
Author 4 – …

5. CRediT roles

  • Conceptualization
  • Data curation
  • Formal analysis
  • Investigation
  • Methodology
  • Project administration
  • Supervision
  • Validation
  • Visualization
  • Writing – original draft
  • Writing – review & editing

Reference (roles and examples):
Hosseini, M., Kerridge, S., Allen, L., Kiermer, V., & Holmes, K. (2026). CRediT Roles and Example Research Tasks That Could be Attributed to Them. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18421449