Deletion of author when submit the revised version of the submitted paper I have a question about the general regulation of VLDB for deletion of author when submit the revised version of the submitted paper (but the paper was rejected finally).

I found a link https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/resource-library/editorial-policies/sample-correspondence-for-an-editorial-office/addition-or-deletion-of-author-before-publication/ about making author changes before paper publication but not for my case.

Suppose our team (3 members) submitted a paper to VLDB, we revised the paper after received the comments from the reviewers.

We didn't include the work from one of the members in the revised version of the submitted paper.

Is it possible for us to remove this author from the paper when submit the revised version of the submitted paper?

What are the procedures required for such change?

Thank you very much!

Best Regards,

Chris.
Is this third author willing to give up authorship?  If so, the third author should contact the editor and explain that they want their name taken off of the revised paper and explain why.  In my experience, this is not a problem if the departing author has requested that their name be removed from the paper.