Terra Alimentaria utilizes the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) framework to recognize individual author contributions, reduce authorship disputes, and facilitate collaboration. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work.
The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed upon by all authors.
The role(s) of all authors should be listed using the relevant categories below.
Authors may have contributed in multiple roles.
CRediT in no way changes the journal’s criteria to qualify for authorship.
CRediT statements should be provided during the submission process and will appear above the acknowledgment section of the published manuscript.
Term
Definition
Conceptualization
Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Methodology
Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Software
Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Validation
Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Formal analysis
Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Investigation
Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Resources
Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Data Curation
Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
Writing - Original Draft
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing - Review & Editing
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre-or post-publication stages.
Visualization
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/ data presentation.
Supervision
Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Project administration
Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Funding acquisition
Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Sample CRediT Author Statement
Budi Santoso: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software. Priya Singh: Data Curation, Writing - Original Draft. Wang Wu: Visualization, Investigation. Jan Jansen: Supervision. Ajay Kumar: Software, Validation. Sun Qi: Writing - Review & Editing.
Further Resources
For more detailed information on how to assign roles accurately, please visit the official NISO CRediT website.
Call for Papers
Terra Alimentaria is actively seeking high-quality submissions for our upcoming November 2026 issue.