Researchers who have used the Centre for imaging please use the Centre affiliation and acknowledge the Centre in all your publications. This does not cost anything, and will act as an objective indicator of our success. As the centre is a member of the SINAPSE collaboration, and all research done in it has benefited hugely from the SINAPSE investment from the Scottish Funding Council and the Chief Scientists Office, these sources also should be acknowledged. Please see the "history" page to see earlier sources of funding which may be appropriate to quote in full in certain situations.

In the Method section you should mention the equipment used.

Scanner
"The work was carried out on a 1.5T Signa Horizon 1.5T HDX MRI scanner operating under a research collaboration with GE Medical Systems (Milwaukee, USA)."

fMRI equipment (additional to scanner above)
"The work was carried out on equipment funded through the SINAPSE collaboration (www.sinapse.ac.uk)"

EEG equipment (additional to scanner above)
"The work was carried out on equipment funded through the SINAPSE collaboration (www.sinapse.ac.uk)"

Brain Research Imaging Centre, Edinburgh

Abstracts:"The imaging research project (CRF and any grant reference numbers) was carried out at the Brain Research Imaging Centre, Edinburgh (www.bric.ed.ac.uk), University of Edinburgh, part of the SINAPSE collaboration (www.sinapse.ac.uk). Support from NHS Lothian R&D, and the WTCRF and xxxx funds are gratefully acknowledged."

Papers:"The imaging research project (CRF and any grant reference numbers) was carried out at the Brain Research Imaging Centre, Edinburgh (www.bric.ed.ac.uk), University of Edinburgh, which is part of the SINAPSE (Scottish Imaging Network - A Platform for Scientific Excellence) collaboration (www.sinapse.ac.uk) funded by the Scottish Funding Council and the Chief Scientist Office. Support from NHS Lothian R&D, and the WTCRF and xxxx funds are gratefuly acknowledged."

Please note that the WTCRF E number (Study Number) should be included in the acknowledgements as this allows us to easily match future publications with studies.

Please use this in publications in addition to your home department. It takes nothing away from your home department and it helps the Centre a great deal. Sometimes, it is easy to signal the Centre as being within the Clinical Neurosciences Department here, as follows,

"JM Wardlaw1
1 Brain Research Imaging Centre, SINAPSE Collaboration (www.sinapse.ac.uk), Division of Clinical Neurosciences [enter your Department here, instead of Clinical Neurosciences, of course!], University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2EX, UK [your own departmental address here for those Centre members not based in Clinical Neurosciences]."

Therefore, it is easy to tweak this for your own Department.

On other occasions, if there are different Centre people involved in a paper (there often are), or if you are one of our valued members from out with the University of Edinburgh, and each need to signal the Centre and a department/institution, the following format is convenient.

"JM Wardlaw1,2, ME Bastin1,3, RA Lerski1,4, et al.
1 SINAPSE Collaboration (www.sinapse.ac.uk)..
2 Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Brain Research Imaging Centre, University of Edinburgh
3 Medical Physics, Brain Research Imaging Centre, University of Edinburgh
4 Medical Physics, University of Dundee

In summary: please always use the BRIC affiliation and use the acknowledgement. It is easy to do, costs nothing, and will help to preserve our core services and continue to build our community of imaging researchers.

We urge you also to use the BRIC Centre affiliation and make Centre acknowledgements in all presentations. It really helps.

If SINAPSE is mentioned in a grant application, please make sure that you include the SINAPSE web address, and check with the SINAPSE office that the mentioning of SINAPSE is correct, well before you submit the grant. Nothing will bring the SINAPSE Collaboration into disrepute faster than exaggerated claims about the resources that SINAPSE can provide, or the benefits that it may bring to projects, which then cannot be substantiated.

As part of the implementation of the CSO Strategy, Investing in Research/Improving Health, we are adopting the successful NHS Research Scotland (NRS) branding for all of the funding that we provide to the NHS to support research. This includes funding provided to the Scottish Clinical Research Networks and all other elements of funding to NHS Boards.

It is the Researchers responsibility to ensure that the following text is used to acknowledge the support of NRS funding when publishing their study findings in peer-review journals, or any other form of publication:

"(Research team or organisation) acknowledges the financial support of NHS Research Scotland (NRS), through (add name of Network/Board here e.g. the Scottish Stroke Research Network or NHS Lothian)."

It is increasingly important for research funders to be able to track outputs related to their funding and we can only achieve an accurate picture with your assistance.