I am submitting to the IEEE Access journal, but I do not find if it is allowed for co-first author in that journal. If allowed, is there any format that I can follow to designate my co-first author?
Dear Hao Luo ,
According to https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/IEEE-Editorial-Style-Manual-for-Authors.pdf it is ‘solved’ this way:
Equally contributed authors: In some cases, the authors may have contributed equally to the work. This is added in italics at the very end of the first paragraph before the corresponding author. See example below.
Manuscript received 2 May 2018; revised 9 September 2018; accepted 12 October 2018. Date of publication 29 November 2018; date of current version 7 March 2019. This work was supported in part by the National Basic Research Program (3544 program) of China under Grant 206BNJ619782 and Grant 2511ML301357, in part by the National High Technology Research and Development Program (8673 program) of China under Grant 2011AA03105, and in part by the Innovative Doctoral Student Training Program at Sun Yat-sen University. (Shanjin Fan and Shiyuan Fan contributed equally to this work.) (Corresponding authors: Jessie Y. C. Chen; Shiyuan Fan.)
Co-first authors: In many fields, it is viewed as good to be the first author. But only one person can be first author, which leads to the practice of some labs having “co-first” authorship. The wording for this is: (Shanjin Fan and Shiyuan Fan are co-first authors.) There is no need to include the “contributed equally” phrase. In the byline, one of the authors must be listed first, but the last line in the first paragraph will indicate both authors as co-first authors. For example:
Manuscript received 2 May 2018; revised 9 September 2018; accepted 12 October 2018. Date of publication 29 November 2018; date of current version 7 March 2019. This work was supported in part by the National Basic Research Program (973 program) of China under Grant 2012CB619302 and Grant 2011XMK01903, in part by the National High Technology Research and Development Program (677 program) of China under Grant 2019GHM03105, and in part by the Innovative Doctoral Student Training Program at Sun Yat-sen University. (Shanjin Fan and Shiyuan Fan are co-first authors.) (Corresponding author: Shanjin Fan.)”
Best regards.
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