Authorship Statement

AUTHORSHIP AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT

 

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All persons who meet authorship criteria are listed as authors, and all authors certify that they have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content, including participation in the concept, design, analysis, writing, or revision of the manuscript. Furthermore, each author certifies that this material or similar material has not been and will not be submitted to or published in any other publication before its appearance in Cartography and Geoinformation.

Authorship contributions

Please indicate the specific contributions made by each author (list the authors’ initials followed by their surnames, for example, M. Lapaine). The name of each author must appear at least once in each of the three categories below.

Category 1

Concept and design of study:                          ,                            ,                           ,                           ;

                          ,                            ,                           ,                           ;                          ,                            ,

 

Acquisition of data:                            ,                            ,                            ,                           ;

                          ,                            ,                           ,                           ;                          ,                            ,

 

Analysis and/or interpretation of data:                          ,                        ,                          ,                         ,

                          ,                            ,                           ,                           ;                          ,                            ,

Category 2

Drafting the manuscript:                              ,                              ,                              ,                             ;

                        , ,                        , ,                        , ,                        , ,                        , ,                        ,

 

Revising the manuscript critically for important intellectual content:                          ,                          ,

                         _,                            . ,                        , ,                        , ,                        ,

,                        , ,                        , ,                        ,

 

Category 3

Approval of the version of the manuscript to be published (the names of all authors must be listed):

                                                              ,                                ,                                ,                                ,

                               ,                                ,                                ,                                ,                        ,

 

Acknowledgements

All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (for example, technical help, writing and editing assistance, general support), but who do not meet the criteria for authorship, are named in the Acknowledgements and have given us their written permission to be named. If we have not included Acknowledgements, this indicates that we have not received substantial contributions from non-authors.

Conflict of Interest

The authors must disclose and sign below to indicate any conflict of interest arising from any author’s work on the contribution or write "NONE" if none exists. A conflict of interest may exist if the author has a competing interest (real or apparent) that could exert or appear to exert an undue influence over the content of the contribution. Examples include financial, institutional or collaborative relationships. The Journal's editor will contact the contributor if any disclosed conflict of interest is considered a risk to the publication of the contribution.

This statement is to be signed by all authors:

Author’s name (typed)             Author’s signature                     Date                   Conflict of Interest

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