Author Contributions Statement

All submitted manuscripts must include an Author Contributions statement based on the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT). This ensures transparency in individual contributions and promotes accountability in scholarly publishing.

Authors should specify their contributions using one or more of the following roles:

• Conceptualization
• Methodology
• Investigation
• Data curation
• Formal analysis
• Writing – original draft
• Writing – review & editing
• Supervision
• Project administration
• Funding acquisition

The Author Contributions statement should be included in the manuscript prior to the References section.

Example:
A.B. contributed to conceptualization and formal analysis. C.D. performed investigation and data curation. E.F. prepared the original draft. All authors contributed to review and editing and approved the final version of the manuscript.