Citing MCFF in Publications
Co-authorship: For any personnel who provide substantial contributions to a publication, proper acknowledgement as a co-author should be followed.
Proper Citation: Research Resource Identifiers (RRID) should be included with any experimental procedures or data.
Example: Images were taken using Instrument 1234 (RRID:SCR_027872).
Acknowledgment: For all research that utilized MCFF laboratories and equipment, please include the following statement in any related publications’ acknowledgements section:
This research was performed at the Michigan Technological University Materials Characterization and Fabrication Core Facility (RRID: SCR_027872) - {Insert Core Lab(s)}.
List of MCFF Core Labs:
- AQUA: Aquatic Analysis Core Lab
- Confocal Imaging Core Lab
- Electron Microscopy Core Lab
- LEAF Laboratory for Environmental Analysis Core Lab
- Mass Spectrometry Core Lab
- Micro Fabrication Core Lab
- Nano Indentation Core Lab
- Scanning Probe & Optical Microscopy Core Lab
- Surface Analysis Core Lab
- X-ray Analysis Core Lab
For the electron microscopy on the FEI Titan Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope:
The electron microscopy research was performed at the Materials Characterization Fabrication Facility (MCFF) at Michigan Technological University. Electron Microscopy facility is supported by NSF MRI 1429232
Staff as Co-authors
When MCFF staff have simply shown users how to use the system, co-authorship is not expected. If any staff helps you design a series of experiments, prepare specimens, and/or perform a significant amount of the experimentation with analysis, it is common courtesy to add their name(s) as co-authors on publications.