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@@ -350,6 +350,14 @@ in the document preface.
 Members of the IEEE SA Standardization Board (SASB) are to be listed in the
 link:/author/ieee/topics/markup#participants[Participants clause].
 
+=== Personal authors
+
+White papers require personal authors to be specified, as follows:
+
+* `:surname:`, `:surname_2:`, `:surname_3:`: Surname of personal authors
+* `:givenname:`, `:givenname_2:`, `:givenname_3:`: Given name of personal authors
+* `:contributor-position:`, `:contributor-position_2:`, `:contributor-position_3:`: Job title of personal authors
+
 
 == Visual appearance