Acknowledgment
Acknowledging the shared resource in your publications:
Please use the following text in the acknowledgments section:
"Data were generated in part through the use of the Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) Core at MD Anderson Cancer Center."
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