Authorship and Acknowledgement Guidelines
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Acknowledgement is mandatory for any publications, reports and scientific content resulting from the use of the confocal system in CCRF. This helps us to track how well the system has been utilized for publication purposes. The standard sentence to be used is “We acknowledge the Confocal Microscopy Facility, CCRF, AIIMS New Delhi for help with image acquisition and analyses.” Please get in touch with the scientist in-charge to get details on the microscope model, details of the objectives, N.A., etc. before writing the Materials and Methods section of your paper.
Authorship in a manuscript is subjective and depends on the effort, time, inputs for the experimental design, troubleshooting, image processing, quantification and statistical analyses including help with writing up specific section(s) of the manuscript that the scientist has contributed to. This should be discussed upfront and depending on how much help is required from the facility/ scientist, a consensus can be reached on whether an authorship is warranted.
For general authorship guidelines, please refer the following:
https://oir.nih.gov/system/files/media/file/2021-08/guidelines-authorship_contributions.pdf
