Authorship policy

The journal *Archivos de Medicina* (Manizales) adheres to the four criteria proposed by the ICMJE for a person to be considered an author, as follows:

1. Substantial contribution to the conception or design of the article, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data; and
2. Drafting the manuscript or critically revising it with significant intellectual input; and
3. Final approval of the version submitted for publication; and
4. Acceptance of responsibility for all aspects of the work to ensure that issues regarding the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are properly investigated and resolved.

All authors must meet all four criteria, and all those who meet the criteria must be listed as authors. The order of authorship must be approved by all authors before the manuscript is submitted for publication. Any person who participated in the work but does not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged in the acknowledgments section.