Citing the COBRE CNTN

Attribution of IDeA Support

When communicating about support from the NIGMS Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program, please follow these attribution guidelines:

In grant award and other announcements, identify the IDeA program, not just the INBRE, COBRE or sub-program, and provide context about the program’s goals along the lines of the sample below:

The University of has recieved $XXX from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. The IDeA program builds research capacities in states that historically have had low levels of NIH funding by supporting basic, clinical and translational research; faculty development; and infrastructure improvements.

In journal articles, oral or poster presentations, news releases, news and feature articles, interviews with reporters and other communications, acknowledge the IDeA program’s full or partial support of the research. The citation in scientific publications should use the following format:

Research reported in this publication was supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number 5P20GM109025.

If you wish to acknowledge NIH/NIGMS funding on your Web site or other communication product, you may use wording such as:

Funded by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institutes of Health

Funded by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health

Include PMCID in Citations

Please visit the NIH Public Access page
https://publicaccess.nih.gov/include-pmcid-citations.htm
for additional information about including PMCID in citations.

Anyone submitting an application, proposal or report to the NIH must include the PMC reference number (PMCID) when citing applicable papers that they author or that arise from their NIH-funded research.