Citing and Acknowledging

Citations

All publications using instruments in the BioImaging Center must include the following statement in the acknowledgements:

Microscopy access was supported by grants from the NIH-NIGMS (P20 GM103446), the NSF (IIA-1301765) and the State of Delaware.

In addition, the following microscopes acquired with shared instrumentation grants must also cite:

Confocal Microscopes:

  • LSM780 confocal microscope (Located at CBBI): Microscopy equipment was acquired with a shared instrumentation grant (S10 RR027273) and access was supported by the NIH-NIGMS (P20 GM103446), the NSF (IIA-1301765) and the State of Delaware.
  • LSM880 confocal microscope (Located at APB 141): Microscopy equipment was acquired with a shared instrumentation grant (S10 OD016361) and access was supported by the NIH-NIGMS (P20 GM103446), the NSF (IIA-1301765) and the State of Delaware.

Electron Microscopes and their Accessory Instrumentation:

  • Thermo Scientific™ Apreo VS SEM microscope: Microscopy equipment was acquired with a shared instrumentation grant (S10 OD025165 ) and access was supported by the NIH-NIGMS (P20 GM103446), the NSF (IIA-1301765) and the State of Delaware.
  • Hitachi S-4700, Leica EM ACE600 and Tousimis Autosamdri-815B: Microscopy equipment was acquired with the Delaware INBRE Grant P20 GM103446.

Other Instruments:

  • CX7 High Content Analysis System:  Microscopy equipment was acquired with the Delaware Cardiovascular COBRE grant P20 GM113125 and the Delaware INBRE Grant P20 GM103446.

Acknowledgements

If expertise was provided as a fee-for-service, the following acknowledgement can be added:

We thank ……… in the Bio-Imaging Center for assistance with ………

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For assistance citing EPSCOR please refer here.

Authorship

If contributions go beyond our normal fee-for-service assistance with microscopy, the staff member should be included as a co-author.  This includes extensive experimental design, data analysis and interpretation, methods development and major contributions writing the manuscript.