Acknowledgement of funding should be a sentence with the funding agency written out in full, followed by the grant number in square brackets (if you have one). For example:
‘This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number xxxx]’.
Multiple grant numbers should be separated by comma and space. Where the research was supported by more than one agency, the different agencies should be separated by a semicolon, with “and” before the final funder. For example:
‘This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number zzzz]; and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number XXXX]’. Your grant reference number must be included
A Rights Retention Statement must be included (see below)
‘For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising‘
You must include a data access statement in your article, explaining how the underpinning data can be accessed - this statement should be included even if there are no data or if the data are inaccessible. Example data access statements can be found here: Data Access Statements. Guidance on the storage and management of research data is available from the Research Data Service: Storage and Management of Research Data.
If you are funded by Wellcome, you must list Wellcome and your grant number in all your research outputs to which Wellcome funding contributed.
Make sure your acknowledgement:
If you have more than one Wellcome grant, separate each grant number with a comma and space.
If you need to acknowledge more than one funder, separate each one with a semi-colon.
Examples - Single grant/ Multiple grants and funders:
'This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [grant number].'
Should you wish to retain your right to self-archive, it is advisable to notify the publisher of this intention at the point of submission. You can use the following language:
‘This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust [Grant number]. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.'
If the above rights-retention text is used, then it should also be included in:
BHF-funded papers should normally be submitted to a fully open access journal, a journal in our open access agreements, or a subscription journal that allows the accepted manuscript to be made open access in PubMed Central as soon as possible and no later than six months after publication.
It is a condition of grant that grant-holders acknowledge BHF support by quoting “British Heart Foundation” followed by the award reference number in the acknowledgement section of all publications arising from BHF-funded research”.
Acknowledgement of funding should be a sentence with the funding agency written out in full, followed by the grant number in square brackets (if you have one). For example:
‘This work was supported by the Horizon [grant number xxxx]’.
Horizon grant-holders also must include the following rights retention statement on all submissions of original research to peer-reviewed journal.
‘For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.'
This will provide immediate open access is provided to the deposited publication via the repository, under the latest available version of the Creative Commons Attribution International Public Licence (CC BY) or a licence with equivalent rights; for monographs and other long-text formats, the licence may exclude commercial uses and derivative works (eg CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND)
Please state the sources of funding including grant number for each author. Including this information is a requirement of many funders. You will also be asked to enter this information during the submission process, but please ensure that you also include it in the manuscript.
We suggest the following format:
This work was supported by the The Royal Society [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Natural Environment Research Council [grant number zzzz]; and the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number aaaa].
All recipients of a Royal Society award are encouraged to publish peer-reviewed accepted articles and conference proceedings in open access journals. As a minimum, award holders are expected to follow green routes for open access by publishing in a journal which allows deposit of the accepted manuscript version in an institutional or subject repository with no embargo period on access. Use a Rights Retention Statement in the acknowledgements section to ensure compliance ‘For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.'
Funder acknowledgements generally follow a standard format:
"This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Natural Environment Research Council [grant number zzzz]; and the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number aaaa]."
Example taken from https://esrc.ukri.org/funding/guidance-for-grant-holders/acknowledging-esrc-in-journal-articles/.
Some research facilities may require you to acknowledge different grant numbers depending on the piece of equipment you’ve used - check with the facility to make sure you’re following their preferred format.