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Definitions of each contributor role as per CRediT are as follows:

Contributor role Definition
Conceptualization Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data curation Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including
software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
Formal analysis Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or
synthesize study data.
Funding acquisition Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or
data/evidence collection.
Methodology Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation,
computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer
code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including
mentorship external to the core team.
Validation Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of
results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data
presentation.
Writing – original draft Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft
(including substantive translation).
Writing – review & editing Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research
group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
Authors are advised to follow Arts & Communication‘s preferred style of writing the Author Contributions statement. See an example below:
Conceptualization: Ali Jackson, Helen Meyer
Investigation: Ali Jackson, Tom Lewis-Hans, Han Xiang
Formal analysis: Han Xiang

Writing – original draft: Ali Jackson
Writing – review & editing: Helen Meyer, Joshua O’Brien

Supplementary files

This section is optional and contains all materials and figures that are excluded from the manuscript. These materials, figures or additional
information are relevant to the manuscript but remain non-essential to readers’ understanding of the manuscript’s main content. All
supplementary information should be submitted as a separate file during submission.
Supplementary figures and tables should be submitted in a single, separate supplementary file, and must be numbered, for example, Figure
S1 and Table S1. All tables must be editable (preferably created from Microsoft Word). The acceptable formats of images and illustrations
used in figures are JPEG, PNG and TIFF. Citations of these items must be appropriately referenced in the manuscript in chronological manner,
for instance, “Additional information can be found in Table S1.” Note the additional letter S helps distinguish the normal from supplementary
items.

Data set file are usually prepared using Microsoft Excel (in XLS or XLSX format).
Videos (MP4 format), with a constituent maximum size of 15 MB, can be uploaded as part of the supplementary file.

Revision and response/rebuttal letter
If the editorial decision for a submission is major revision or minor revision, authors are advised to revise the manuscript (and possibly, the
supplementary files) as per the review reports and resubmit the revision file, including the manuscript, title page and back matter, cover letter,
and response/rebuttal letter, before the due date.
Revisions should be done on the latest version of the manuscript (or in some rare cases, edited manuscript provided by the editor) with the
track change on. The revisions made should be described and/or clarified in the response/rebuttal letter; ideally, explanation about the revisions
should be made clear with the help of page number and line number. If authors do not agree with reviewers’ comments and suggestions, rebut
their points with strong evidence and reasonable arguments.