GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

GRADUATE GROUP IN ARCHITECTURE

Graduate Group in Architecture Authorship Policy

1. In the Graduate Group in Architecture all students and faculty are expected to produce individual scholarship and to cite all contributions to their work in conformity with customary scholarly practices.
   
2. All student work for the fulfillment of degree requirements is student work and the property of the student. it must have due citation and acknowledgment of contributions from others.
   
3. Students have the right to publish their work. No publications that occur before the dissertation is completed are assumed to fulfill degree requirements.
   
4. Any joint project will be presented as such from the outset and the collaborators will agree from the beginning that their joint efforts will be presented publicly under both names.
   
5. If there is any dispute as to propriety in the development or publication of joint work, the matter should be brought to the attention of the Graduate Group Chair, by either the student or the faculty member, and then handled within the Graduate Group with appropriate consultation with other members of the Graduate Group.
   
6. Definitions:
   

• each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for its content
  
• authorship credit should be based on substantial contributions to each of the following areas: conception and design of the project; drafting the text; revising it critically for intellectual content; and final approval of the text and illustrations to be published. All of these conditions should normally be met for authorship to be assigned
  
• participation solely in the acquisition of funding, providing for language translation, or the collection of data and/or illustrations does not require the assignment of authorship
  
• appropriate credit for the contributions of other individuals should be formally acknowledged
  
• any unpublished idea or part of an article critical to its main conclusions must be assigned to its author and acknowledged. If that author is a student, the faculty member must acknowledge that person as a co-author
  

• the order of names should be mutually agreed, preferably at the outset
  
• the order of authors may be alphabetical, otherwise
  
• the first author is likely to be the person who has contributed most to the work
  
• the sequence of more than two authors is determined by the relative contributions to the work