University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Joint Policy
Affiliations and Acknowledgements for Pre-clinical and Clinical Research Publications
Background
When submitting items for publication it is important for authors to acknowledge the organisations
involved in the research. This acknowledgement is critical to the success of the Southampton
partnership, making it more attractive to external bodies that are in a position to place future
business and research funding with departments and individuals within Southampton.
This policy is provided to ensure authors identify the University of Southampton and University
Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust in a way that will increase the ability of search
engines, routinely used by funders of research (e.g. by the RAND association and National
Institute of Health Research), to identify publications from the Southampton partnership.
Citing both organisations on all papers covered by this policy acknowledges the success of each
organisation resulting from working in partnership, and helps ensure continued recognition, reward
and support of our partnership.
Scope
The policy applies to all staff and students whose research outputs from pre-clinical and clinical
research derive from their employment by the University and/or Trust, from research grants
awarded to the University and/or Trust or otherwise from the use of University and/or Trust
resources and facilities. The policy applies to all authors of publications, and not simply to principal
authors or reprint authors.
Policy
When submitting items for publication the Trust and University of Southampton require that
affiliations and acknowledgements are included in the formats provided in Appendix 1.
All publications resulting from research carried out under NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, NIHR
Biomedical Research Centre, or NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research
and Care funding agreements must acknowledge NIHR funding, using the terms contained in
Appendix 2.
Addresses
Please use the appropriate departmental postal address, for example:
Somers Cancer Research Building
Mailpoint 824
Southampton General Hospital
Tremona Road
Southampton SO16 6YD
UK
NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
Mailpoint 218
Southampton General Hospital
Tremona Road
Southampton SO16 6YD
UK
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NIHR CLAHRC Wessex
University of Southampton
Nightingale Building B67, Room E2005
University Road
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK
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Appendix 1: Joint affiliation
Where any author has a substantive or honorary contract with the University of Southampton
and/or the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust both organisations must
appear as affiliations in ALL submissions for publication.
Example of required format:
Author’s affiliation
University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Additional affiliations
The University Faculty should be listed as the second affiliation. Further affiliations of all authors
should be listed using the appropriate form of words as given below:
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University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine (change Faculty as appropriate)
University of Southampton Faculty of Health Sciences (change Faculty as appropriate)
NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit
NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre
NIHR/Wellcome Trust Southampton Clinical Research Facility
NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care
Southampton NIHR/CRUK Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
Southampton Cancer Research UK Centre
University of Southampton NIHR/CRUK Clinical Trials Unit
University of Southampton Institute for Life Sciences
MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit
Acknowledgments
Please remember to acknowledge:
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Any sponsorship you have received for the research you are publishing. For grants, include
the grant number and source.
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Where resources (staff, space or equipment) of a particular unit or department have been
used e.g. NIHR/Welcome Trust Southampton Clinical Research Facility, Southampton
NIHR Biomedical Research Unit / Centre, NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied
Health Research and Care, is used in the course of the project, the unit / department must
appear in the acknowledgements section. For example:
‘This study was supported by the NIHR/Wellcome Trust Southampton Clinical Research
Facility’.
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Names of individual staff who have supported the project that led to the publication as well
as the relevant department using an appropriate title.
o Southampton Faculty of Medicine Bioimaging Unit
o UHSFT Department of Infection
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NIHR academic training programmes.
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Supported AF2s, ACFs and CLs should have funding acknowledged as “PERSON
X (or initials) was supported by the University of Southampton National Institute of
Health Research Academic Foundation Programme/Academic Clinical Fellowship
Scheme (delete as applicable) or NIHR Clinical Lectureship”
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Appendix 2: NIHR Biomedical Research Unit and Biomedical Research Centre contractual
disclaimers
Publications resulting from research carried out under NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Biomedical
Research Centre or NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care
funding agreements must acknowledge NIHR funding, using the following terms and disclaimers
as appropriate:
NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit:
“This report is independent research by the National Institute for Health Research
Biomedical Research Unit Funding Scheme. The views expressed in this publication are
those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for
Health Research or the Department of Health.”
NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre:
“This report is independent research by the National Institute for Health Research
Biomedical Research Centre Funding Scheme. The views expressed in this publication are
those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for
Health Research or the Department of Health.”
NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care:
“This report is independent research by the National Institute for Health Research
Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) Funding Scheme.
The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the
NHS, the National Institute for Health Research or the Department of Health.”
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