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Groups that are listed as full authors in the author list, i.e. where the group name is included directly in the author list and does not follow ‘on behalf of’, will have their members listed as non-author collaborators on PubMed. See theNational Library of Medicine- Authorship in MEDLINE webpagefor more information.* The group name should appear directly in the author list on the title page (i.e. not following ‘on behalf of’).* The names of individual group members should appear in Appendix 1.* If there is more than one group listed as an author, each group should be listed in its own appendix.* The appendix should be titled with the name of the group, for example:* Appendix 1 Members of the Good Research Group* In the appendix, the authors should be formatted as follows, one per line:* Jane Smith, Department of Investigations, Research University, Studyton.* https://orcid.org/0000-0012-3456-789XRoles, affiliations and ORCID IDs can be included, but they will not be displayed on PubMed. If they are present, they should appear after the name, on the same line. If more than one author has the same affiliation, the affiliation should be repeated.#### Lists of members of groups mentioned in the author list as ‘on behalf of’If a group is listed at the end of the author list with the prefix ‘on behalf of’, this implies that the authors, who are working on behalf of the group, have published the paper, and the group as a whole is not a direct author of the publication.Group member names will not appear in PubMed. Naming the members of the group is therefore for acknowledgement only.* The group name should appear at the end of the author list on the title page, prefixed by the text ‘on behalf of’.* The names of the group members do not have to be shown, but if they are given, they should appear as part of the Additional Information section, under a sub-heading containing the name of the group; for example: