The phrase "authors credit" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct form would be "author's credit" or "authors' credit," depending on the context.
Example: "The author's credit should be clearly displayed on the cover of the book."
Alternatives: "author attribution" or "credit to the author."
The report's authors credit prison authorities with "a desire and openness to improvement," and called on the government to institute a range of reforms that would reduce overcrowding, end abusive punishments and improve conditions.
The authors credit him with improved relations between local communities and the police.
The authors credit six key principles: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions and stories.
In both cases, we gave the original authors' credit for their work.
To the authors' credit, they do not pull their punches when it comes to the problems that stifled Farley's potential and eventually killed him.
The authors credit Samuel F. B. Morse's invention of the telegraph in 1844 with allowing manufacturers to exchange transcontinental communications with newspapers.
The authors credited the Mormons' healthy lifestyle.
The authors credited, in part, Washington's "breed of tough, activist women" for the relative transparency of its government.
WEEKEND A review on Friday about the movie "World War Z," using information from a publicist, misstated the number of authors credited for the script.
This makes Lydekker the authority of the species name menagensis, because he was the first to use the specific name in combination with the name of a genus, although some subsequent authors credited other workers.
All authors credited with this work made substantial intellectual contribution to the submitted manuscript.
