Quick start
- Step 1 — Add authors by name, in authorship order. You can add several at once by separating names with commas, e.g.
Jane Smith, John Doe, Mary Lee.
- Step 2 — Tick each author's CRediT roles in the grid. Hover a column header to see that role's official definition.
- Step 3 — Pick a journal style and click Generate Statement, then Copy to Clipboard or Save as File.
Importing from descriptive text
Instead of ticking boxes by hand, you can paste an existing contribution statement into the Import from descriptive text box and click Parse & Import. The parser tries several formats automatically — you don't need to tell it which one you're using. Afterward, always glance over the grid: parsing is best-effort and can be corrected manually.
Supported formats
1. Colon style (Elsevier / plain-text / LaTeX) — one sentence per author, name then colon then roles:
Jane Smith: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft.
John Doe: Data curation, Formal analysis.
2. "Was/were responsible for" style (common in Nature-family journals):
Jane Smith and John Doe were responsible for designing the experiments.
Mary Lee was responsible for writing the initial manuscript.
3. Role-first, semicolon-separated (LaTeX author-contribution blocks):
Conceptualization, J.S., M.L.; Writing – original draft, J.S.; Supervision, M.L.
4. Free-form sentences — plain prose naming who did what:
Jane Smith and John Doe conceived the study and performed the experiments.
Mary Lee supervised the project and acquired funding.
All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
"All authors …" sentences apply that role to every author already found in the text.
Tips for best results
- Multiple authors in one sentence can be joined with
and, &, ;, or commas — including Oxford-comma lists like Jane Smith, John Doe, and Mary Lee.
- Names may use initials (
J.S.), accented letters (José García), hyphens, or apostrophes (Jean-Pierre O'Brien).
- If a sentence names authors but the parser can't confidently match a specific CRediT role, it still adds the author (with no roles pre-checked) so you can assign roles manually instead of them going missing.
- You can re-run Parse & Import multiple times — it merges into existing authors rather than replacing them.
Saving your work
- Your authors and role selections are saved automatically in this browser (no account needed) — closing the tab won't lose your work.
- Copy to Clipboard copies the generated statement text (or tab-separated values in Table mode).
- Save as File downloads the statement as
.txt (.tex for LaTeX, .tsv for Table mode) for attaching to a submission.