Author templates

Templates for authors

Downloadable CRediT statements, AI disclosure paragraphs, and narrative CV scaffolds — in the formats that journals and funders expect. CC-BY 4.0; adapt freely to your context.

We maintain a small library of editorial templates so that researchers can produce a compliant CRediT statement, an AI-use disclosure, or a funder-facing narrative CV without re-deriving the format from the underlying standard each time. Every template is released under CC-BY 4.0; institutions and publishers may adapt them with attribution.

The downloadable assets ship with site release v2026.2 (September 2026). Until then, the canonical wording for each template is reproduced inline on the relevant guide page; the worked example below follows the wording recommended by Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and Cambridge University Press author guidance and is identical to the form used in the NISO CRediT reference documentation.

Worked example

A minimal CRediT statement

Author Contributions (paste-ready)

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Author Contributions (CRediT)

Zhang San: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software.
Priya Patel: Data curation, Writing – original draft.
Erin Wright: Visualization, Investigation.
Adam Lloyd: Supervision, Software, Validation.
Maria García-López: Writing – review & editing.

All fourteen NISO roles, definitions, and canonical URIs are on the CRediT roles index. The optional degree-of-contribution qualifier (lead / equal / supporting) is documented in the CRediT overview.

CRediT statements

CRediT statement templates

Drop-in contributor-role statements for the Acknowledgements or Author Contributions section, in the formats publishers actually accept.

Word (.docx) — standard ICMJE-style paragraphComing soon
LaTeX (.tex) — \paragraph macro for AMS, Elsevier, IEEE classesComing soon
Markdown (.md) — for preprint servers, Quarto, and Pandoc workflowsComing soon
Plain text — for journals that paste statements verbatim into typesettingComing soon

AI disclosure

AI disclosure templates

Ready-to-use disclosure statements aligned with ICMJE, COPE, Nature Portfolio, NEJM, Lancet, BMJ, and JAMA expectations.

Minimum-acceptable form (language editing only)Coming soon
Substantive-use form (analysis, code, drafting, image generation)Coming soon
Cover-letter addendum (NEJM-style)Coming soon
Methods-section addendum (Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer Nature)Coming soon

Narrative CVs

Narrative CV templates

Four-module narrative-CV frameworks for funder applications. UKRI R4RI is mandatory since January 2024; Wellcome and Royal Society use closely-related formats.

UKRI Resume for Research and Innovation (R4RI) — WordComing soon
Wellcome Trust narrative CV — WordComing soon
Royal Society Résumé for Researchers — WordComing soon
NIH Biosketch (US) — WordComing soon

Notes on use

Templates encode the wording recommended by ICMJE, NISO, UKRI, Wellcome and the Royal Society at the time of release. Funder forms change; check the awarding body’s current guidance before submission.
The CRediT statement templates support the optional degree qualifier as a JATS specific-use attribute. See the JATS implementation guide for the encoding details.
The narrative-CV templates are scaffolds, not finished documents. The four R4RI modules (contributions to generation of knowledge, development of individuals, wider research community, and broader society) are intentionally open-ended; the template gives prompts and word-count guidance.

For a fuller treatment of the underlying standards, see ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022, the ICMJE Recommendations, and the UKRI R4RI guidance.

CC-BY 4.0 All templates released under CC-BY 4.0.