Single Paper Authorship Guildlines

The following guidelines were approved by the Spokesmen and Authorship
Committee on April 29, 2005, amended March 8, 2007.

Guidelines for adding people to the author list of specific papers for which
they have made very significant contributions:

1) The request for such authorship must be made in writing to the Chair of 
the Authorship Committee. The Committee will then review the request, and make 
a recommendation to the Spokesmen. The Spokesmen will make the final decision.

2) The person must have clearly made a significant contribution to the
specific paper or the analysis on which the paper is based. The significant
contributions must be well beyond normal contributions to D0 operations and 
analysis. General contributions to a group effort utilized by many analyses
is not sufficient for authorship. The significant contributions must be
described in detail in the request.

3) The request must be for only a single person, for a specific paper or
specific papers. The paper(s) must be clearly identified. If the request is
for more than one paper, the request must detail the significant contributions
separately for each of the proposed papers.

4) The request needs to be supported, in writing, by the relevant physics
group conveners. It is the responsibility of the requester to obtain and
supply the convener support. It is much preferred to receive just one email
containing the request and conveners support; multiple emails will delay the
review of the request.

5) Along with the request must be a statement indicating:
  i) if the applicant is not yet a full author, what is the status of
     their qualifying for full authorship? When might that request be
     made? 
  ii) if the applicant is not expected to ever become a full author, why not?
  iii) if the applicant is a former author, approximately when did their
      retirement benefits end?

NOTE: Under normal circumstances, the authorship rules as approved by 
the Institutional Board and published in the D0 Governance Document,
limits the number of papers to which a person may be granted authorship
under these guidelines to three (3).