1. Authorship

PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY has agreed to receive and publish manuscripts in
accordance with the instructions of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Details of ICMJE and COPE are available
at www.icmje.org and http://publicationethics.org/
The ICMJE recommends that authorship should be based on the following four criteria:
 
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition,
analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND

2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND

3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND

4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions
related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately
investigated and resolved.

All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship.

i. Alterations in the List of Authors
PJR does not prescribe to change in the authors list with respect to additions and deletions
after the initial submission.

ii. Contributions Statement
Statements describing detailed contributions made by each author are required at the time of
submission of the manuscript. This has to be outlined in the submission statement form.
Incomplete form can lead to processing delays in the manuscript.

iii. Corresponding Author
The corresponding author is the individual who takes primary responsibility for
communication with the journal. The corresponding author should be available throughout
the submission and peer review process to respond to editorial queries in a timely way, and
should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with
any requests from the journal for data or additional information should questions about the
paper arise after publication.

iv. Author’s Address and affiliation
Present addresses for individual authors that differ from the address(es) at which the work
was done should be given in a Present Addresses note to be placed at the bottom of the first
page.

v. Deceased Authors
Deceased authors should be included with a death dagger (†) next to the author's name, and a
footnote stating that the author is deceased and giving the date of their death e.g., †Deceased
1 January 2026.