Acknowledging Core Facilities

Acknowledgement of core facility services and instruments supported by Montana State University are required in publications and are a key performance indicator of a facility's research activity. When core facilities are applying for funding opportunities to support instrument upgrades, they are required to report publications that utilized core services to funding agencies. Acknowledging core facilities in your publications will help ensure that core facilities continue to be here to provide training, instrumentation, and support in the future.

 

Please include the following statement in your acknowledgements section:

Example: "This work used (service and/or instrument name) in the [name of the core facility] which is supported by [funding source] and Montana State University, [enter RRID number]."

Check on each core facility's page for a specific acknowledgement example, including funding sources.

 

What is a RRID number?

Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) are ID numbers assigned to help researchers cite key resources such as core facilities in literature to improve the transparency of research methods and improve citability of these resources.

 

Facility	RRID
Animal Resources Center (ARC)	RRID:SCR_026351
Cellular Analysis Core (CAC)	RRID:SCR_026328
Cryo-EM Core Facility	RRID:SCR_026324
Geospatial Core Facility (GCF)	RRID:SCR_026332
Imaging and Chemical Analysis Laboratory (ICAL)	RRID:SCR_026325
Montana Microfabrication Facility (MMF)	RRID:SCR_026333
Montana State Mass Spectrometry (MSMS)	RRID:SCR_026333
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMR)	RRID:SCR_026334
Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI)	RRID:SCR_026229
Social Data Collection and Analysis Services	RRID:SCR_026326