Well, you all can imagine what I think of listing co-authors in alphabetical order. I think it stinks. My advice is to write more than one piece with your co-authors and change up the order through successive pieces. That's what Peter Shears and Sandy Hurd and I do. Alternatively, if you are working across disciplines, let the author with the specialty in the journal's discipline be the lead. So, the ALSBer takes the law article, the management person takes the lead on the management version of the piece, and the marketing person takes the lead on the article that goes to a marketing journal.

Fran Zollers

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The co-authors who have told me this usually had last names that came before
M in the alphabet. Once I told a B that I agreed with this and was changing
my name to Aardvark and, lo and behold, he was offended. Go figure.

Ginny

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From: "Bruce D. Fisher" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: Multiple author contributions


> Pearson,
>     I have been told by my "betters," that anything other than "alpha
> order" generally signals unequal contributions.  My "betters" also tell me
> that attempts to "explain" magnitude of contributions reflects unfavorably
> on the authors and/or journal as such info is implicit in multiple
authored
> works.
>              Bruce D. Fisher
> At 02:48 PM 4/4/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >       Is there another way to show author contribution  without being so
> >up front? You can reply to me individually at
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> >  Pearson Liddell
>