acknowledgemtns

Services and equipment in the MITI are provided with support from multiple funding agencies and MUST be appropriately cited for sustained operation of these shared resources. MITI users are obligated to fully acknowledge the facility and its funding sources in formal publications and presentations containing any data generated with support from the facility (instrumentation and/or staff). 

Researchers may now use a simplified core acknowledgement statement referencing our Research Resource ID (RRID), 

“We acknowledge use of the University of Nebraska Medical Center - UNMC Multiphoton Intravital & Tissue Imaging (MITI) Facility, RRID:SCR_022478, P30GM127200 (NIGMS, NCN), P20GM130447 (NIGMS, CoNDA), P30CA036727 (NCI, Buffett Cancer Center), S10OD030486 (NIH), Nebraska Research Initiative, UNMC Vice Chancellor for Research Office.” 

We appreciate receiving reprints or PDFs of such publications to use in our annual reports to internal and external funding agencies. 

Authorship Guidelines for Shared Research Resource Users 

The following guidelines should be used to ensure shared research resources, including staff scientists, are appropriately recognized, and cited for their scientific contributions. These guidelines are aligned with recommendations from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors describing what merits authorship in publications. Adapted from Hockberger et al 2018. 

Guideline 1: The following activities should be acknowledged on manuscripts and grants, but they do not by themselves meet the criteria for authorship. 

• Core scientist provided routine training or services for the user. 

• Core scientist collected data for users requiring technical skill but did not involve interpretation of data. 

• Core scientist reviewed the manuscript or grant for intellectual content or advised on a revision of it. 

• A technical question from a referee about data presented in the manuscript required a response from the core scientist with technical expertise relevant to the project. 

• Lab head or PI provided general supervision of the research project without significant intellectual input. 

• Lab head or PI provided funding for the project without significant intellectual input. 

Guideline 2: If all of the following conditions are met, then a core scientist should be invited to be a coauthor on the manuscript. If a core scientist contributed 1 or more of these, but not all, then it is up to the discretion of the PI whether authorship is warranted. 

• Core scientist contributed significantly to the conception or design of the project. 

• Core scientist provided “nonroutine” training and services for a user. This includes development of novel procedures for data acquisition or data analyses. 

• Core scientist wrote a portion of the manuscript (including Materials and Methods, figure legends, or technical details). 

• Core scientist approved and took responsibility for the intellectual content of her/his contribution to the manuscript. 

• Core scientist produced a figure for the manuscript using data collected by the core scientist. 

Guideline 3: If any of the following conditions are met, then the core scientist should be invited to be a coauthor on the manuscript. 

• Core scientist acquired, analyzed, and interpreted data for the project that required unique expertise and skills.