The Revista de Investigaciones de la Universidad Le Cordon Bleu adopts the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to promote transparency and fair recognition of individual contributions in published work. CRediT specifies contributors’ roles in the production of a research article, which may include: conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, funding acquisition, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources, software, supervision, validation, visualization, and writing the original draft and the review/editing stages.

• Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Data curation: Management activities to annotate (metadata), clean, document, maintain and curate research data (including software code where needed to interpret the data) for initial use and later reuse.
• 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 the research and investigation process; performing experiments or data/evidence collection.
• Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the planning and execution of the research activity.
• Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, instrumentation, patients, laboratory samples, animals, computing resources or other analysis tools.
• Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components; packaging and release.
• Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the planning and execution of the research, including mentorship to the team.
• Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, including replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
• Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work’s visualizations/figures.
• Writing – original draft: Preparation and presentation of the initial manuscript.
• Writing – review & editing: Critical review, commentary or revision that contributes substantial intellectual content; includes post-peer-review editing and approval of the final version.

Notes: Each author must declare at least one CRediT role. Multiple authors may share the same role, and one author may hold multiple roles. Role assignment does not determine authorship order.