The journal welcomes the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, published in June 2015 by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE; available at: http://publicationethics.org/). Consulted 18 April 2017), which establish in relation to authorship and contributions that “an author must assume responsibility for at least one of the parts that make up the work, should be able to identify those responsible for each of the other parts, and it would be desirable for him to trust the capacity and integrity of those with whom he shares authorship. ” For this reason, the magazine Amautas requests all authors to describe their contributions in the manuscript sent for publication.