Overview
Where The Royal Society stands on CRediT
The Royal Society requires an author-contributions statement on its research articles and recommends the CRediT taxonomy. The role information is captured at submission and published with the article.
Scope: Across the Royal Society Publishing journal portfolio
Implementation details
How CRediT is captured and produced
| Submission system | ScholarOne Manuscripts |
| JATS implementation | ScholarOne CRediT capture; JATS <role vocab="credit"> emitted in the production XML; CRediT propagated to Crossref deposits. |
| Production workflow | CRediT data flows from ScholarOne into the production pipeline, the published article, and the Crossref deposit for the article DOI. |
For authors
Author guidance — submitting to a The Royal Society journal
When submitting to a Royal Society journal, provide an author-contributions statement using the CRediT taxonomy for each author. ORCID iDs are required for corresponding authors and encouraged for all contributors.
For general CRediT submission guidance across publishers, see CRediT for authors.
Sample journals
Representative The Royal Society titles with CRediT capture
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
- Royal Society Open Science
- Biology Letters
- Interface
- Open Biology
Adoption history
Notable milestones
The Royal Society is the UK's national academy of sciences and the world's oldest continuously operating scientific publisher. It adopted CRediT-based author-contributions reporting in line with the wider society-publisher cohort, and Royal Society Open Science is a fully open-access, transparent-review title.
Notes
Caveats and context
Royal Society Open Science offers optional open peer review; the broader portfolio mixes hybrid and fully open-access titles.
Frequently asked
Common questions about The Royal Society and CRediT
- Does The Royal Society require CRediT contributor statements?
- Yes. The Royal Society captures structured CRediT statements as part of its standard submission flow. The Royal Society requires an author-contributions statement on its research articles and recommends the CRediT taxonomy. The role information is captured at submission and published with the article.
- Which The Royal Society journals support CRediT?
- Representative The Royal Society titles known to support structured CRediT capture include Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Royal Society Open Science. Scope: Across the Royal Society Publishing journal portfolio. Check the individual journals author instructions to confirm the current contributor-roles policy.
- How do I add CRediT to my The Royal Society submission?
- When submitting to a Royal Society journal, provide an author-contributions statement using the CRediT taxonomy for each author. ORCID iDs are required for corresponding authors and encouraged for all contributors.
- What submission system does The Royal Society use for CRediT capture?
- The Royal Society uses ScholarOne Manuscripts. ScholarOne CRediT capture; JATS <role vocab="credit"> emitted in the production XML; CRediT propagated to Crossref deposits.
- When did The Royal Society adopt CRediT?
- The Royal Society adopted CRediT around 2018. The Royal Society is the UK's national academy of sciences and the world's oldest continuously operating scientific publisher. It adopted CRediT-based author-contributions reporting in line with the wider society-publisher cohort, and Royal Society Open Science is a fully open-access, transparent-review title.
References
Sources
- Royal Society Publishing — author guidelines
