Formatting APS Journal Articles :: Credits Section
Performing experiments and running a laboratory can be expensive, and authors are given money through various means. Any funds that the authors receive can be declared here. This includes awards, grants, and endowments or support from organizations. In addition, the authors may choose to indicate exactly who received the funding.
Title all information detailing support for the work or study with the word "Grants" as a level 1 header (even if no grants are specifically cited) after any Note Added in Proof and the Acknowledgements.
Make sure that the information is presented in complete sentences.
Authors of the paper are referred to by their first initial followed by their last name, and they do not receive any honorifics (no Dr. or Prof.). For example, "I. Asimov was supported by grants from the Robot organization." If specific grants are assigned to authors, then these follow the grant information as a parenthetical comment of the following form: "This study was supported by Robot Grant 34 (to I. Asimov)."
The words "grant," "award," "fund," etc. are lowercase except when they are given specific numbers; in that case, these words are initial capped.
Make sure that all abbreviated organizations are written out or defined. If the name of an institution is used more than once in the Acknowledgements, the accepted abbreviation may be used in instances after its first mention. Some organizations are used so commonly that there are specific codes for them in the Toolkit (click on the open book icon and select Grants and Associations). If you cannot determine the organization, try searching for it using the search engine Google and/or query the author to have them provide the full name. Note that the word "Institutes" is plural when National Institutes of Health and Canadian Institutes of Health Research are written out or defined.
Avoid sentences stating that a specifically numbered grant was from a given organization. Instead, state that support was given by organization grant XXXXX. For example, change
This study was supported by Grant CA-00001 from the National Cancer Institute.
to
Support for this study was provided by National Cancer Institute Grant CA-00001.
National Institutes of Health grants. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides funding for a number of studies, and every NIH grant begins with several letters indicating the funding institute (for example, CA-00001). APS style is to cite the specific institute of NIH that gave the funding if only one institute provided it. So if all the institute letters of the grants are the same, then only one institute gave the funding, and you have to cite that institute. Many of the various institutes of NIH have codes in the Toolkit for ease of use (click on the open book icon and select Grants and Associations).
If these letters are different, then the following type of sentence is used "This work was supported by «nih» Grants P01-CA-00001 and RO1 HL-00002." Note that there is a «nih» code and that the grant numbers have a hyphen between the institute letters and numbers.
The alphanumerics P01 and RO1 are used by NIH to denote grant types and are not vital information to APS; they can be hyphenated or not hyphenated in the grant number and the "0" and "O" can be used interchangeably.
The following is a table of the grant code, abbreviation, and specific institute for all subsections of NIH (from http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/acronym_list.htm):