Authorship confers credit for scholarly work and has important academic, social, and professional implications. Authorship also implies responsibility and accountability for published work. LITERATUR: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra therefore sets out these criteria to ensure that everyone who has made a substantive intellectual contribution to a paper receives credit as an author, and that every author understands their responsibility for what is published.
In language and literary research involving communities, speech communities, or local researchers at the research site, the editors encourage collaboration and co-authorship with local researchers who have made substantial contributions. Their inclusion adds to the fairness, contextual depth, and accuracy of interpretation of the research.
An individual qualifies for authorship if they meet all four of the following criteria:
Each author should also be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific parts of the work and should have confidence in the integrity of their co-authors' contributions.
All those designated as authors must meet all four criteria, and all who meet them must be listed as authors. These criteria must not be used to exclude colleagues who meet the first criterion by denying them the opportunity to participate in drafting, revising, or approving the manuscript.
Determining who meets the authorship criteria is the collective responsibility of the authors, ideally from the planning stage of the research. The editors do not determine who qualifies for authorship or arbitrate authorship disputes. If agreement cannot be reached, the dispute should be referred to the institution(s) where the work was performed. The order of authors on the byline is decided collectively by the author group.
Requests to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission or publication must be accompanied by a written explanation and a signed statement of agreement from all listed authors, including the author being added or removed.
The corresponding author is the one individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during submission, peer review, and publication. The corresponding author ensures that all administrative requirements are met, including authorship details, research permits or informant consent where applicable, and conflict of interest statements. The corresponding author should respond to editorial queries in a timely manner and remain available after publication to respond to critiques of the work or requests for additional data. The editors will send copies of important correspondence to all listed authors.
Contributors who do not meet all four criteria should not be listed as authors but should be recognized in the Acknowledgments section. The following activities alone do not qualify for authorship: acquisition of funding, general supervision or administrative support, and writing assistance, language editing, translation, or proofreading.
Examples of contributors who may be acknowledged include informants or native speakers, transcribers, translators, field assistants, archivists or manuscript custodians, and those who reviewed the research proposal. Their contributions should be described specifically, for example "assisted with transcription of speech data" or "provided access to a private manuscript collection." The corresponding author is advised to obtain written permission from all individuals named in the acknowledgments.
Authors must disclose the use of AI-assisted technologies (such as Large Language Models, chatbots, or AI-based translation and image-generation tools) in the preparation of the manuscript, both in the cover letter and in the manuscript itself:
AI must not be listed or cited as an author, because it cannot take responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work. Authors are fully responsible for all content of the manuscript, including any parts produced with the assistance of AI. Authors should carefully review and edit AI output, as AI can generate authoritative-sounding content that may be incorrect, incomplete, or biased. Authors must also ensure the manuscript is free of plagiarism, including in text and images produced by AI, and that all quoted material is properly attributed with full citations.
