Acknowledgment
Please include a statement acknowledging EVcore when our services, instrumentation or expertise contributed to your work.
Statement:
"This work was supported in part by the Extracellular Vesicles and Exosomes Biology Core (EVcore) at MD Anderson Cancer Center, which is supported by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Core Facility Support Award RP250533."
EVcore services should be acknowledged in peer-reviewed journal articles, conference abstracts and posters, as well as theses and dissertations.
Upon publication or presentation of your work, please send the citation to EVcore for inclusion in our reporting.
We strongly encourage that:
- Shared resource staff and/or leadership be listed as authors on publications for their intellectual contributions
- Shared resources are listed as institutional affiliations if allowed by the publication
- All shared resources used are also listed in the acknowledgment section of the publication
This will ensure the correct and comprehensive retrieval of shared resource facility publications for progress reporting and better provide publication attributions for core staff.
All authors are responsible for knowing and crediting in whatever section is available (such as acknowledgments and/or affiliations), the correct, official and complete name(s) of any and all core facilities utilized for the purposes of the paper.
Examples of how to add a shared resource as an institutional affiliation:
Smith, J.A.1,2,3
(1) <Insert Department Name>, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
(2) <Insert Shared Resource Name>, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
(3) <Insert additional Shared Resource Name as applicable, etc.>, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Example 1 (see Metabolomics Core Facility): https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-025-00952-z#author-information
Example 2 (see Chang): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666636725012643?via%3Dihub
Attention Shared Resource Users
A PubMed Central ID (PMCID) is the only way to demonstrate a manuscript's compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. All MD Anderson authors are responsible for handling PMC compliance, regardless of author order, position or current affiliation with MD Anderson. This obligation remains even if they are no longer employed or affiliated with MD Anderson.