5. Authorship:

5.1 Wu Zhengyi and Peter H. Raven Co-chairs of the Editorial Committee will be printed on the first front page under the title Flora of China. On the second front page, all members of the Joint Editorial Committee and editorial assistants will be listed alphabetically.

5.2 Authors will be the person(s) who have made major contributions to the taxonomic treatments of the Flora of China. The Chinese author(s) will be listed first, separated by a semicolon from the names of co-author(s).