Acknowledging QB3 Mass Spectrometry
All work performed by QB3 Mass Spectrometry should be acknowledged in reports, presentations, posters, papers, and other publications. Your acknowledgment is a measure of our facility’s impact, and is essential to our funding and continued operation. Please acknowledge us as follows:
“This work used QB3 Mass Spectrometry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, RRID:SCR_025852. QB3 Mass Spectrometry received support from the National Institutes of Health (grant number 1S10RR025622-01 and 1S10OD020062-01).”
An email containing full citation details should be sent to Dr. Anthony Iavarone (general mass spectrometry) or Dr. Rob Maxwell (proteomics), after the paper has been published. The facility uses this information for grant reporting purposes and for procuring additional instrumentation and capabilities in the future. In cases where facility personnel contribute extensive amounts of time and effort toward data analysis or methods development, working on their own or in close collaboration with a researcher to obtain data that could not be obtained through routine acquisition, then co-authorship should be considered.
Link paper via myNCBI
Please link your papers to our NIH grants in eRA commons, RePORTER, etc., through myNCBI. Instructions on how to link your paper through nyNCBI are on the NIH website.
Assistance
If you need assistance with describing the methods that were used to collect your data, then we can offer you a description of what we did for you. If our work with you went far beyond the routine, then we will be happy to accept co-authorship and help you write the paper.