Authorship

Authorship 

Authorship provides credit for an individual’s contributions to a study and carries accountability. There are no universally accepted standards for assigning authorship. Principles, customs and practices differ significantly from one discipline to another.

Responsibility for decisions regarding the authorship of publications lies with those who carried out the work reported in the publication. Researchers should be aware of the authorship practices within their own disciplines and should always abide by any requirements stipulated by journals as part of their instructions to authors.

The author of a film is the one that writes the story.

“The auteur theory applied itself more specifically to film in the 1950s with a group of young french critics ( Jean-Luc Goddard, and Truffaut). Named cahiers du cinema who watched a backlog of American films (following the war) and noted similarities between differing works by the same director. This was later established by Francois Truffaut in La Politique de Auteurs 1954.”