Acknowledgements and Publications

Acknowledgment and Publications 

USERS WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THE IMIL BY NAME IN ANY PUBLICATION CONTAINING IMAGES ACQUIRED BY ANY OF THE FACILITY MICROSCOPES.

Research using the IMIL will be categorized in the following ways with corresponding recommended levels of recognition:

• REQUIRED for independent use of the facility by trained users: “The authors acknowledge the assistance of the Integrated Microscopy and Imaging Laboratory at the Texas A&M College of Medicine. RRID:SCR_021637.”
• Provision of routine procedures and methods by the facility director and/or facility manager: Acknowledgment of the facility and individual(s).
• Use of original techniques, novel experimental design, and/or significant involvement in the interpretation of scientific data by the facility director and/or facility manager or involvement in the actual writing of a paper by the facility director and/or facility manager: Co-authorship and acknowledgment of the facility.
• Independent, original work by the facility director and/or facility manager: Senior authorship with permission granted from the investigator for use of materials and acknowledgment of the facility.

Resources for Guidance on publishing imaging data:

• Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analyses | Nature Methods 
• Best practices and tools for reporting reproducible fluorescence microscopy methods | Nature Methods