What form of words should I use to acknowledge the MRC in journal articles?
Following discussions between the Research Information Network, Research Councils, other funders and journal publishers, a standard format was agreed for acknowledging funders in journal articles. This is to enable improved tracking of the publications generated by funded research projects. For articles published in journals, or deposited in institutional or subject-based repositories, the acknowledgement of funding should take the form of a sentence as in the following example, with the funding agency written out in full, followed by the grant or Unit Programme number in square brackets: This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number xxxx/Unit Programme number Uxxxxx]. Multiple grant numbers should be separated by comma and space. Where the research was supported by more than one agency, the different agencies should be separated by a semi-colon, with “and” before the final funder. For example: This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant numbe
