Guidelines from International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ICMJE for determining authorship of and contributorship to medical journal articles   Reading this article I was surprised to see that the Vancouver Group Requirements not the Vancouver Style for medical journal article citations thats a separate issue for determining who is an author of a medical journal article who is a contributor to a medical journal article and where these guidelines may be found are completely absent from the article  That is a grievous omission  As a degreed technical writer who has met the Vancouver Group now the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ICMJE guidelines as a medical journal coauthor for having taken part in two of the three phases of medical research described in a list of medical journal articles mostly in interventional angiology and cardiology I feel that any article dealing with medical ghostwriting is fatally flawed unless the issue of hard and fast guidelines for determining and crediting authorship and contributorship in a medical journal article is dealt with in detail  Its an easy issue to resolve and the guidelines for dealing with it are so concise they can be quoted verbatim in a Wikipedia article  Which I did  This article NOW after the changes I made equips the reader to be able to say who is an author of a medical journal article  using the very same guidelines medicine uses to establish that same fact  The reader is also now able to determine in general terms who is a contributor to a medical journal article using the same guidelines medicine uses to establish that fact  Finally the previously undealtwith issue of how authorship and contributorship guidelines are enforced who draws them up and who polices them is now dealt with in the text