🐝 authordown

authordown is an easy-to-use R package designed to streamline the management of author metadata, affiliations, and contributions in academic manuscripts—particularly helpful for papers with extensive author lists.

✨ Features

• Automatic title page generation: Creates formatted title pages tailored to journal requirements.
• Author metadata management: Easily handle multiple authors, affiliations, and correspondence information.
• Acknowledgments and Conflict-of-Interest: Automatically generate sections from standardized information.
• CRediT-compatible author contributions: Clearly define each author's contributions based on structured input.
• Interactive Shiny App: A user-friendly web interface to simplify the process.

🚀 Installation

You can install the development version directly from GitHub:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("zh1peng/authordown")

📖 Quick Start

Prepare your author data using the provided CSV template (author_template.csv):

library(authordown)

# Load author data
authors <- read.csv("author_template.csv")

# Generate title page text
generate_titlepage(authors, journal_style = "APA")

🎯 Using the Shiny Interface

A convenient Shiny interface is included:

library(shiny)

shiny::runApp(system.file("shiny-app", package = "authordown"))

Simply upload your CSV file, select journal style, and get your formatted content instantly.

📋 Example CSV Format

Here's a quick look at the CSV structure you need:

Order	FirstName	LastName	Email	Affiliation1	Affiliation2	Corresponding
1	Alice	Smith	alice@example.com	University X, Dept. Y	NA	TRUE
2	Bob	Johnson	bob@example.com	University X, Dept. Y	Company Z	FALSE

• Order: Author order in manuscript
• Corresponding: Mark TRUE for corresponding authors

🛠 Contributing

Bug reports, feature suggestions, and contributions are welcome:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to your branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

📧 Contact

• Your Name -zhipeng30@foxmail.com
• Project Link: https://github.com/zh1peng/authordown