Authorship, Acknowledgement, and Citation Guidelines

Acknowledgment format 

Proper acknowledgment of the shared core facilities is required by US funding agencies and enables tracking of the impact of our shared core facilities and can lead to additional funding for new equipment. 

Thus, core facilities from the University of Pittsburgh should also be acknowledged with their respective RRID number.  

Here is a template that new shared cores should use: 

Work performed in the XXX Facility (RRID:######) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the Department of [name of the department], and the [name of the foundation or granted institution] Foundation.

RCF Name Location Acknowledgement
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Tissue and Research Pathology Services (TARPS)
Hillman
Work performed in the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Tissue and Research Pathology Services (TARPS Shared Resource Facility and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, and the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904.
UPMC Hillman Cancer Genomics Facility (CGF)
Hillman
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904 and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Cancer Genomics Facility (RRID:SCR_025357).
Tissue Pathology Imaging Lab (TPIL)
Hillman
Work performed in the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Tissue Pathology Imaging Lab (TPIL) Shared Resource Facility and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, and the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904.
UPMC Cancer Proteomics Facility: Luminex Core Laboratory
Hillman
Work performed in the UPMC Cancer Proteomics Facility: Luminex Core Laboratory (RRID:SCR_025134) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Biostatistics Facility (BF)
Hillman
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904 and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Biostatistics Facility (RRID:SCR_025355).
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Cancer Bioinformatics Services (CBS)
Hillman
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904 and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Cancer Bioinformatics Services Facility (RRID:SCR_025356).
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Cancer Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Facility (CPPF)
Hillman
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904 and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Cancer Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Facility (RRID:SCR_025358).
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Cytometry Facility (CF)
Hillman
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904 and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Cytometry Facility (RRID:SCR_025361).
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Immune Monitoring and Cellular Production Laboratory (IMCPL)
Hillman
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904 and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Immune Monitoring and Cellular Production Laboratory (RRID:SCR_025362).
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center In Vivo Imaging Facility (pre clinical and clinical) (IVIF)
Hillman
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904 and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center In Vivo Imaging Facility (RRID:SCR_025360).
Dietrich School Machine Shop
Lower Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School Machine Shop Core Facility (RRID:SCR_023720) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterization Core Facility
Lower Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Nanofabrication and Characterization Core Facility (RRID:SCR_05124) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
Dietrich School Mass Spectrometry Facility
Lower Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School Mass Spectrometry Facility (RRID:SCR_025123) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
Dietrich School Materials Characterization Laboratory
Lower Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School Materials Characterization Laboratory (RRID:SCR_025127) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
Dietrich School Materials X-ray Crystallography Facility
Lower Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh X-ray Crystallography Facility (RRID:SCR_025125) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
Pitt Isotope Tracer Lab
Lower Campus
Work performed in the Pitt Isotope Tracers Lab (RRID:######) and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by NSF award #0929182, and by the University of Pittsburgh, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences.
Dietrich School Microscopy and Imaging Suite
Lower Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School Microscopy and Imaging Suite (RRID:SCR_022084) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
Dietrich School NMR Core Facility
Lower Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School NMR Core Facility (RRID:SCR_025126) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
Dietrich School Electronics Shop
Lower Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School Electronics Shop Core Facility (RRID:SCR_025113) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
Dietrich School Glass Shop
Lower Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School Glass Shop Core Facility (RRID:SCR_023719) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh.
Peptide and Peptoid Synthesis Core
Upper Campus
Peptide synthesis, characterization, modification and purification were performed in the University of Pittsburgh Peptide and Peptoid Synthesis Core (RRID:SCR_025219.) The services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported by the University of Pittsburgh, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences.
Pitt Biospecimen Core
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Pitt Biospecimen Core and services and instruments used in this project were supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
Single Cell Core Facility
Upper Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Single Cell Core Facility (RRID:SCR_025110) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the Department of Medicine.
Small Animal Ultrasonography Core Facility
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Small Animal Ultrasonography Core Facility (RRID:SCR_025152) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the Department of Medicine and Vascular Medicine Institute, and the NIH 1S10OD023684-01A1: Advanced High Resolution Rodent Ultrasound Imaging System.
Drosophila Research Core Facility
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Drosophila Research Core Facility (RRID:SCR_025221) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Science and the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
Small Molecule Biomarker Core
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Small Molecule Biomarker Core Facility (RRID:SCR_025218) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences, and the National Institutes of Health S10RR023461 andS10OD028540.
Flow Cytometry Core at John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center
Upper Campus
Work performed in Flow Cytometry Core at John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center (RRID:SCR_025223) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the Department of Pediatrics
Steve N. Caritis Magee Women’s Research Institute Magee Obstetrical Maternal Infant (MOMI) Database and Biobank.
Upper Campus
Data and/or materials were obtained from the Steve N. Caritis MWRI Magee Obstetrical Maternal Infant (MOMI) Database and Biobank
Advanced Imaging Core
Upper Campus
Magnetic Resonance Imaging was performed in the Advanced Imaging Center at the University of Pittsburgh (RRID: SCR_025139) and the services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and the Department of Neurobiology.
Genome Editing, Transgenic and Virus (GETV) Core
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Genome Editing, Transgenic and Virus (GETV) Core (RRID:SCR_025151), and services and instruments used by the core are generously supported, in part, by the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation.
Unified Flow Core Facility
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Unified Flow Core Facility (RRID:SCR_025102) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Immunology. *Please note that some instruments obtained with NIH S10 instrument grants have specific reporting requirements. For work involving the instruments below please add the following: This work benefitted from (instrument from list) funded by NIH (grant number from list) Cytek Aurora CS Spectral Sorter S10OD032265 Canopy Biosciences Chip Cytometer S10OD030396
Bioinformatics Core Facility at John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Bioinformatics Core Facility at John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center (RRID:SCR_025228) were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, and the Department of Pediatrics.
Gnotobiotic Animal Core
Upper Campus
The services, equipment and facilities of the Gnotobiotic Animal core (RRID:SCR_025218) used in this project were supported in part by the University of Pittsburgh and Departments of Immunology, Medicine and Pediatrics
Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD)
Upper Campus
The project described was graciously supported by the National Institutes of Health through Grant Number UL1 TR001857, KL2 TR001856, and/or TL1 TR001858.
Health Sciences Mass Spectrometry Core
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Health Sciences Mass Spectrometry Core (RRID:SCR_025222) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, and the National Institutes of Health shared instrumentation grants S10OD023402 for lipidomics and S10OD032141 for metabolomics.
Cell Imaging Core Laboratory at John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center
Upper Campus
The confocal images were acquired at the Cell Imaging Core Laboratory located within the John G. Rangos Research Center, Children's Hospital of UPMC (RRID:SCR_025132.) The services and instrumentation used in this project received generous support from the University of Pittsburgh and the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of UPMC.
Health Sciences Sequencing Core at Children’s Hospital
Upper Campus
(list specific services) was performed in the Health Sciences Sequencing Core at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (RRID:SCR_023116) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, the Department of Pediatrics, the Institute for Precision Medicine, and the Richard K Mellon Foundation for Pediatric Research.
Center for Research on Healthcare Data Center Core Facility
Upper Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Health Care Data Center Core Facility (RRID:SCR_025227) and services used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Medicine.
Health Services Research Data Center
Upper Campus
Work performed in the University of Pittsburgh Health Services Research Data Center (RRID:SCR_025226) and services used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, the department of health sciences IT in the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Office
Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core Facility
Upper Campus
The Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core Facility (RRID:SCR_025216) used for data collection in this project was graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the Department of Structural Biology, and the National Institutes of Health (grants S10-OD-019995 and S10-OD-025009).
Magee Women’s Research Institute Confocal Core
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Magee Womens Research Institute Confocal Core (RRID:SCR_025213) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, The Magee-Womens Research Institute, and NIH Grant S10OD030404.
Magnetic Resonance Research Center
Upper Campus
Work performed in the Magnetic Resonance Research Center (RRID:SCR_025216) and services and instruments used in this center were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Department of Radiology, and the National Institutes of Health.
Metabolic Core at John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center
Upper Campus
[Insert Type(s) of analysis] was performed in the Metabolic Core Facility located within the John G. Rangos Research Center, Children’s Hospital of UPMC (RRID:SCR_025224) and services and instruments used in this project were graciously supported, in part, by the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Pediatrics.