For years journal articles from the natural sciences have beencharacterized by multiple authors, reflecting the collaborativenature of the research. The articles have also conformed to aprofessional norm in giving credit to the authors and, at leastimplicitly, indicating their relative contributions. Although suchcollaborative research has grown significantly in political science,the discipline is still wrestling with any standard to indicate whogets credit and the nature of multiple authors' relativecontributions. This is an issue with which political scientists fromthe most junior to the most senior continue to deal.