Authorship

Authorship criteria

Authorship should reflect meaningful scholarly contribution. Appropriate contributions may include development of the research question, study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, substantial literature synthesis, manuscript drafting, or substantive manuscript revision.

Providing general supervision, paid tutoring, administrative assistance, proofreading, funding, or access to resources does not by itself justify authorship. Individuals whose contributions do not meet authorship criteria may be acknowledged. All authors must approve the submitted and final versions of the manuscript.

Student authors

JRISA welcomes student authors, including secondary school, undergraduate, and graduate students. Student manuscripts are evaluated using the same core standards of academic integrity, clarity, ethical research practice, and appropriate scholarly methodology applied to all manuscripts.

Students may publish independently or with research mentors when authorship criteria are met. A teacher, mentor, advisor, or program instructor should not be listed as an author solely because they supervised the student.

For authors who are minors, the journal may request appropriate parent or guardian authorization in connection with publication agreements or other administrative requirements.

Conflicts of interest

Authors must disclose financial support relevant to the submitted research.

Authors must also disclose any financial, professional, academic, personal, or organizational relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the work.

Manuscripts submitted by individuals affiliated with the publisher, members of the Editorial Board, or individuals with other potential conflicts of interest will be handled by an editor without the relevant conflict and evaluated using the journal’s normal review standards.