Manis: Jurnal Manajemen dan Bisnis is committed to transparent, fair, and responsible attribution of authorship. All individuals listed as authors must have made meaningful intellectual contributions to the submitted manuscript and must accept responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly work.

This policy applies to both Original Research Articles and Literature Review Articles. The corresponding author must ensure that all authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript and have consented to its submission.

To qualify as an author, an individual should satisfy all the following criteria:

1. Make a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work; or to data acquisition, analysis, or interpretation; or to the intellectual development and synthesis of a literature review.
2. Participate in drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content.
3. Review and approve the final version to be submitted and published.
4. Agree to be accountable for their contribution and cooperate in resolving questions about the accuracy or integrity of the work.

Individuals contributing only funding, routine administrative support, general supervision, technical assistance, language editing, or data collection without further qualifying intellectual contributions should not automatically be designated as authors. Such contributions may be recognized in the Acknowledgments section with the contributor's permission.

The order of authors should be agreed upon collectively before submission and should fairly reflect the authors' contributions and disciplinary conventions. The journal encourages authors to provide a concise author-contribution statement using relevant roles, such as conceptualization, methodology, investigation, formal analysis, data curation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization, supervision, and project administration.

A contribution statement does not replace the requirement that every listed author must meet the authorship criteria. Disagreements over authorship should ordinarily be resolved by the authors and, where necessary, their institutions.

• Communicate with the editorial office throughout submission, peer review, production, and post-publication stages.
• Confirm that every listed author meets the criteria, has approved the final manuscript, and agrees to submission.
• Ensure accurate author names, affiliations, email addresses, and ORCID identifiers where available.
• Coordinate conflict-of-interest disclosures, funding information, ethics statements, and author contributions.
• Inform all co-authors about substantive editorial decisions, revisions, corrections, or publication ethics inquiries.
• Obtain and provide written agreement from co-authors when an authorship change is requested.

Requests to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must be submitted in writing by the corresponding author, explaining the reason for the change and providing written consent from all existing authors and any author to be added or removed.

The editorial team may request additional documentation and may suspend processing while a dispute is resolved. Authorship changes after acceptance or publication require particularly careful consideration. Changes to a published article, where warranted, will be documented through an appropriate editorial notice rather than made silently.

Artificial intelligence tools, chatbots, and automated systems cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility or accountability for published research. Human authors remain responsible for verifying any AI-assisted content, references, analysis, and disclosures in accordance with the journal's AI Policy.

See the AI Policy for additional requirements.

Concerns relating to inappropriate authorship, omitted contributors, unauthorized authorship, or misleading declarations may be reported to the editorial office. Editors will assess the available documentation, seek clarification from relevant parties, and may consult the authors' institutions when appropriate.

Depending on the facts and manuscript status, editorial actions may include a request for clarification, suspension of processing, rejection, a published correction, or other action under the journal's publication ethics and correction/retraction policies. Decisions are based on evidence and are not automatic.

Please refer to the journal's Author Guidelines, Publication Ethics, Editorial Policy, and AI Policy.