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Ensure your publications are ready for submission. 

Authorship best practice

Many authors submit manuscripts only to have them quickly rejected in an "on the desk rejection". To maximise your chances of acceptance, keep in mind the following authorship guidelines:

• Submit a cover letter
• Follow publisher's author instructions
• Respond promptly and effectively to requests to "review and submit".

Visit the [Publishing process] for more advice on authorship considerations. 

Researcher identity

It is important to differentiate yourself from other researchers with similar names or fields of study. Researcher identifiers, such as an ORCiD ID, allow you to reliably and unambiguously connect your name(s) with your professional activities. 

Creating an online scholarly identity can be helpful in a number of ways. It allows you to:

• Distinguish between yourself and other authors with identical or similar names
• Link all of your works, even if you have had multiple affiliations or names over the course of your career
• More easily provide evidence of all your research outputs to grant funders or to populate Australian Research Council grant applications
• Ensure your work is clearly attributed
• Ensure more accurate citation and impact metrics
• Reduce duplication of administrative work in research workflows.

Watch What is ORCID? (Vimeo, 4m16s) to learn more about research identifiers and ORCiD ID. 

Publishers are increasingly requesting ORCID IDs from authors at article submission. This helps the publisher to streamline the submission process via Single-Sign-On and/or auto-populating the submission form with data from the author's ORCID record, such as preferred publication name and affiliation. 

This can help to reduce errors and ensure your papers are correctly attributed across all stages of the publishing process, including being embedded into article metadata for online indexing systems. 

Some funding bodies now mandate that all authors on any paper arising from research undertaken as part of a grant allocation must submit their ORCID iD to the journal, along with the Funding agency and grant ID. Visit ORCID ID and research identifiers for more information. 

Affiliation

List your affiliation details as required by the UQ Authorship Procedure to link your research to the University. 

Follow the same affiliation pattern on all platforms, including social media. For example, 

Acknowledgement of Country

Include an Acknowledgement of Country in your manuscript to show respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

Select a location that suits your publication type and the publisher's style. For example:

• articles - in the Acknowledgements section or as the first footnote in the front page
• books - in the front matter of the book. 

Personalise the statement

Personalise your Acknowledgement to the campus or location where your research took place. This may involve acknowledging more than one Country, Nation, or language group. 

In cases where there are disputes around custodial ownership, the Traditional Owners of the land are acknowledged without naming any specific peoples. 

To write your statement:

1. Use one of the examples below as a starting point
2. Add the specific Country and peoples where possible. For assistance, use:
   1. First Languages Australia map
   2. AustLang database for locating language groups
   3. Whose Country am I on? for additional ways to identify traditional owners

Acknowledgement examples

For a paper:

This paper was written on (* Country). I acknowledge the (* people) as Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the lands. I pay my respects to their Ancestors and their descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country - recognising their valuable contributions to Australian and global society. 

For research:

This research was conducted on (* Country) of/with (* people/s). I acknowledge the
(* people) as Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the lands. I pay my respects to their Ancestors and their descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country - recognising their valuable contributions to Australian and global society. 

Further information

Ask your supervisor, relevant group in your Faculty or Institute, or local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community organisation for further guidance. 

More resources

Refer to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander referencing guide to properly cite and acknowledge:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors
• Oral histories
• Traditional knowledge
• Art
• Datasets.