====== Authorship: Author List on Papers ======

====Scientific Publications====
|  The currency of Science  | The scientific paper appearing in a peer-reviewed publication is the "currency" of science.|
|  Date of publication, reception, acceptance  |In addition to having a particular date of publication, many journals publish the date a paper was first received by the editors, before the revies and revision process started.|
|  Ethics - Misaccreditation (plagiarism)  | It is unethical to repeat verbatim from another author without proper accreditation. \\It is unethical to accredit oneself with work done by others.|


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====Publication Types====
|  Conference paper  | Typically limited to 8 or 10 pages (given a specific line space, margin, and font size)   |
|  Conference poster  | Offered by some conferences. Typically one A-0 poster with complete information about the work done, yet in an "at a glance" format (for attracting people from across the room). Content has same outline as a standard scientific paper.   |
|  Conference short paper  | Sometimes offered. Sometimes alternative if an interesting paper did not get sufficiently good review to be included in its entirety.     |
|  Conference position paper  | Presents a particular argument; does not include data or results   |
|  Journal paper  | The "big brother" of conference papers -- typically also longer and more thorough; higher page limit than conferences (30 or 50 as max - often not nailed down)  |
|  Books  | Books are a good option for material that (1) is solid and should be conveniently collected in one compact reference, (2) requires more space than is typically offered by journals (>50 pages), (3) is of general interest and should be distributed to the general public.  |


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====Authorship====
|  Authorlist  |Either alphabetical or in order of level of contribution.|
|  Alphabetical list   |All authors contributed at a similar level (at least in theory).|
|  First author  |This is the main author of the paper, that is, the person who: \\ - is the driving force behind the work presented \\ - is the author of the ideas presented in the paper \\ - did most of the work and implementation. \\ Ideally it is also the person who wrote most of the paper.|
|  Reality  |First author is often a professor who sticks their name on every paper published by a laboratory or department or group.|
|  Second author  | This is the "second person in command" for the work presented in the paper|
|  Third, fourth, fifth, etc. author  | Typically a list of people who did some of the work; sometimes these are also people who had a hand in the writing of the paper, but very often they are not (mostly for practical reasons).|
|  Extremely long authorship lists  | Becoming increasingly common in group projects|
|  Last author  |Increasingly advisors/professors are putting themselves at the end of the authors' list on papers describing the work of their students.|
|  Acknowledgment vs. author?  | If a person is not the authors' list (for whatever reason) but contributed something to the work, it is customary to put in a thank-you note in the Acknowledgment section.|

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