Relative contribution should be given after each author's name

EDITOR,—Richard Horton and Richard Smith's editorial addresses the continuing problem of authorship.1 The authors suggest that a “film credit” style of authorship might be possible. This would be unwieldy. An even less plausible alternative is the use of font size to indicate relative contribution to a scientific paper.2 This would result in visually interesting title pages …

[1]  R Smith,et al.  Time to redefine authorship , 1996, BMJ.