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Contributors’ form (to be modified as applicable and one signed copy attached with the manuscript)
Research Title: _____________________________________________________________________________
Manuscript Title: ___
Manuscript Number: _____________________________________________________________

I/We hereby sign and declare that I/We have sufficiently participated in this work. We have collaborated
and generated the intellectual content, and participated in the design and conceiving of this work, assisted
with data management, analysis, and helped with writing of the manuscript. We/ I take complete
responsibility for this work and by signing have agreed to have my/our name as a contributors. By signing
we certify that my/our written manuscript is valid work. Each one of us affirm of having met the criteria
for authorship and the administrators.
We have not submitted/ published this complete work in this format under my/our authorship elsewhere,
except here. I/we certify that all the data collected during the study is presented in this manuscript.
We/I agree that if our complete dataset / any information pertaining to our work is requested then we
will be providing the same to the administrators. There are no financial interests, direct or indirect, that
exist with respect to the authors our submitted research or may be perceived to exist and if they do then
they have been disclosed in the work. Sources of outside support of the project are also mentioned in the
manuscript.
By signing this document I/We hereby transfer(s), assign(s), or otherwise convey(s) all copyright
ownership of this format, including any and all rights incidental thereto, exclusively to the administrative
team in case the work is published by the team. As this is the master research document this format will be
owned by the administrator and its is my/our responsibility to update the account to display any articles
which are published as a result of this master research document. This Master Format will be owned by the
Team including 1) copyright; 2) the right to grant permission to republish the master research in the
submitted format; 3) Allow other researchers /authors to read and review the work 4) Allow secondary
research on this master research 5) Preserve the right to produce preprints or reprints or sale or free
distribution; and 4) the right to republish the work in any other mechanical or electronic format.
The lead/submitting author is hereby authorized by to make necessary changes as per the request by the
admin and also correspondence on our behalf and he/she will act as the guarantor for the manuscript as
our appointee.
We have also named in acknowledgement all people who have made substantial contributions to the work
reported in the manuscript, but whom we have not named as contributors. We have their permission to
add their names and can furnish the same if requested by the team. Those who did not effectively /
satisfactorily contribute are not mentioned in the manuscript acknowledgements.

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