Feature request: Allow specification of co-authorship

[abhi18av]

Hi @wjschne 👋

Thank you so much for the wondeful template!

I was so excited to find this that I ended up spending quite a while and ported one of my manuscripts to the template already.

In the process, I realised a nice addition which is the ability to specify co-authorship in the metadata field. For now, the equal contribution doesn't translate as a * next to author names in the compiled outputs.

What do you think?

If I'm mistaken and this already exists, could you please point in the right direction?

[wjschne]

Good idea. Can you point me to an example of an APA document with this feature?

[abhi18av]

Hi @wjschne ,

I think the closest official guideline that we can get to this feature is either through (i) footnotes where one can highlight that X,Y

From Page-7 of the APA citation manual

Perhaps this footnote can be placed next to the authors' names on the title page.

Example: Jane Doe¹, John Smith¹
¹These authors contributed equally to this work.