Authorship |  | Advisor & student verbally agree... |
|  |  | A guiding practice for responsible authorship is for all individuals who are involved in the work to discuss openly and frankly authorship criteria and decisions and agree upon them in writing in advance. The faculty advisor and graduate student verbally agreed that the student’s role in the study did not merit authorship. However, the faculty advisor should have amended the written agreement that existed among other team members stating the student’s role in the project and that it was agreed that the stated role did not merit authorship (probably merited mention in the acknowledgements section).