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CI Corresponding Author Requirements corresponding author Corresponding author or correspondence author is the supervisor of your research from whom all the directions and instructions of research and corresponding author Authorship Guidelines in ASM Journals · Key Takeaways · Providing Author Contributions · Assigning Corresponding Authors and Their Role · Explaining Co-First

author The corresponding author is the one individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer-review