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You can often change authorship after acceptance, but not always. You will need to be prepared to explain why this is needed, why someone was missing, and what their role is. You may need to fill out a form and provide confirmation from each author that they agreee to the change, often requiring signatures.

As long as such authors can be contacted via the corresponding author, it should be OK for them to use an incomplete name, initials or a pen name to protect their privacy. In this way, the scientific publication meets expectations of integrity and transparency, while the author retains the degree of privacy they want.

No, it's definitely not mandatory to use legal names, at least in the venues I publish in. I know a number of people who publish under non-legal names. For example, using the nickname that everyone knows them by (sometimes in quotes with legal name), and married women known professionally by their maiden names.

Papers that report experimental work are often structured chronologically in five sections: first, Introduction; then Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion (together, these three sections make up the paper's body); and finally, Conclusion.

But in general: nobody checks (or cares) whether the name you put on a published paper matches your official name. So if you use an informal variant of your name, e.g. if your name is "Stephen" but you publish as "Steve", nobody will bat an eyelid.

The sequence of authors should be determined by the relative overall contributions to the manuscript. It is common practice to have the senior author appear last, sometimes regardless of his or her contribution. The senior author, like all other authors, should meet all criteria for authorship.

Yes it's possible, although you probably have to convince the editor why you'd want to do that. Example of paper published with an alias.