In the Name of God

Acknowledgement and

Appendix

A. Shirani

Acknowledgement

• Whom to ack ?• Uniform requirements• Style• Examples

Acknowledgement&

Silent Partners

Acknowledgement

Ack • significant technical help• data, specimens etc.• funding• reviewers

Acknowledgements

“We wish to thank” - all those who deserve

recognition for their contribution but who have not

made a significant intellectual contribution and are

therefore not included as authors

(Colleagues,Institutions, Organizations providing

financial help, laboratory and secretarial staff)

Acknowledgement

Optional

Depending on the study

Uniform Requirements

Contributors Listed in Acknowledgments

Uniform Requirements

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section.

Uniform Requirements

Examples : • A person who provided purely

technical help,• Writing assistance• Department chair who provided only

general support• Financial and material support

Uniform Requirements

Groups of persons who have contributed materially to the paper but whose contributions do not justify authorship may be listed under a heading such as "clinical investigators" or "participating investigators,"

Uniform Requirements

and their function or contribution should be described - for example,

"served as scientific advisors,“"critically reviewed the study proposal," "collected data,“ or "provided and cared for study patients."

Uniform Requirements

Because readers may infer their endorsement of the data and conclusions, all persons must give written permission to be acknowledged.

Acknowledgement Page

Acknowledgement

Always brief and

never flowery !

Example

The authors wish to thank Dr. X for invaluable help.

Example

This study was supported by a grant from Iran National Research Centre of Medical Sciences.

Example

We thank Dr. X for editing the manuscript.

Example

We would hereby appreciate the kind efforts of Mr X in the statistical analysis of this study

Example

We thank Lone Mortensen , Health Statistics , Danish National Board of Health.

Example

We thank chiefly A and B . We also thank C and D.

Example

Dr. X would like to thank Dr. Y for his invaluable help.

Example

This study was Dr. X’s postgraduate thesis.

This study formed part of Dr. X’s postgraduate thesis.

Appendix

• Content • Examples of materials• Glossary

Appendix

Extra or supplementary materials and technical detail

In order not to interrupt the flow of the text

Appendix Non-essential information for

understanding of paper But may present information that further clarifies a point without burdening the body of the presentation

Appendix

Primary information to a secondary audience

Secondary information to a primary audience.

Appendix

An optional part

Less commonly found in published papers

Appendix

Alternatively, it can be published only in the electronic version of the journal.

Examples of materials in appendix

• Raw data• Maps (foldout type especially)• Extra photographs • Explanations of formulas , either already

known ones , or especially if you have “invented” some statistical or other mathematical procedure for data analysis

to be continued

Examples of materials in appendix

• Specialized computer programs for a particular procedure

• Full generic names of chemicals or compounds that you have referred to in somewhat abbreviated fashion or by some common name in the text of your paper

• Diagrams of special apparati

That was not an exclusive list !

Figures and tables in appendices

Numbered in a separate sequence from those found in body of paper

If more than 1 appendix ,

• Each one identified by a Roman numeral

e.g. , Appendix I , Appendix II , etc

• Each one should contain different material

Glossary

A special type of appendix

Glossary

To define unfamiliar terms for secondary users

Glossary You might have terms in a

glossary that you have already defined in the document if the term is used in more than one section in the document and you believe an audience might turn to one of those sections without reading the section where it is defined.

Glossary

You might also have a term appearing in the glossary that is also defined in the text, if the glossary definition contains more information than the text definition.

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