Roles of Funding

 

ROLE OF FUNDING SOURCES

Authors are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of research and/or preparation of the article and briefly describe the role of the funder/sponsor in any part of the work including design and conduct of the study, data collection, data management, data analysis and interpretation, preparation, review and approval of the manuscript. The following rules should be followed: 

1. The sentence should begin with: ‘This work was supported by …’. 
2. The full official funding agency name should be given in an expandable form, not in an abbreviated form.
3. Grant numbers should be complete and accurate and provided in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number ABX CDXXXXXX]’
4. Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers ABX CDXXXXXX, EFX GHXXXXXX]’
5. Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)