The following information relates to articles that are going to be published Open Access, either within a Gold or Hybrid journal. If you are publishing your article via the traditional subscription model, please refer to How do I request a change in authorship? 

Can I change the Corresponding Author?

Please note, all changes to the corresponding author will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, Sage cannot guarantee that your request will be accepted. At Sage, we follow the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) principles of authorship to ensure fair and transparent credit for all authors involved in the research. For more information, please see Sage's Authorship Guidelines. 

Pre-acceptance

If you would like to change the corresponding author before your article has been accepted, email your corresponding author change request to the journal's Editor. The journal's Editor contact information can be found in the Manuscript Submission Guidelines. To find this, visit the Sage Journals platform, search for the journal title, and go to the submission guidelines tab. The journal's Editor email address can be found in these guidelines.

Post-acceptance

Once your article has been accepted, please email your corresponding author change request  to the Sage Open Access Customer Services team at openaccess@sagepub.com. 

• Please note, we are unable to change the corresponding author of an article to obtain an Open Access agreement discount or waiver. 

If you have already completed APC payment, please email your corresponding author change request to the Production team. We will be unable to change the record on your APC invoice, however, if accepted, the article will be published with the updated corresponding author information. 

Contact Information

For general author queries, please visit the Author FAQs in our Sage Journals Knowledge Base which contains answers to common questions.