DUNEDIN STUDY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SECTION TEMPLATE
updated for June 2024
Ethics: If your data are only up to phase 45, this should read: The Dunedin Study was approved by the Health and Disability Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health, New Zealand. Participants gave written informed consent.
For Phase 52 data: The Dunedin Study is approved by the University of Otago Ethics Committee.
This research received support from:
US-NIA R01AG032282 (funding for 45 and 52; please cite in all papers),
The UK Medical Research Council MR/X021149/1 (funding for phase 52, cite in all papers),
Author X was supported by [name, name, your own funding sources here, if you don’t know ask somebody],
The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit is supported by the New Zealand Health Research Council (Programme Grant 16-604),
Grants you might also acknowledge, depending on the nature of the paper:
US-NIA R01AG069939 (to study substance use, cite in all papers touching on these topics)
US-NIA R01AG073207 (funding for the Pace of Aging, DunedinPACE, and DunedinPACNI; please cite in all papers using these 3 aging measures),
US-NIA R01AG049789: (the brain imaging grant “Neural signatures of healthy and unhealthy aging,” please cite in any papers using IQ, neuropsych test measures, or on brain-related topics).
US-NIA 5P30AG034424 (funding for silicone wristbands for airborne toxins, XRF leg bone metals assessment, and geocoding of SM’s neighborhoods, please cite in all papers using these measures added at Phase 52).
If reporting genomic data: “grant 2016-IDG-1013 from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.”
The Duke Molecular Physiology Institute Molecular Genomics Core generated data.
And check with Avshalom and Temi if your project involves funding from organisations within Duke such as DuPRI. For example, P30 code 303003300 and P2C code 303003269.
Thank-yous.
We thank Dunedin Study members and their families.
We thank Professor Reremoana Theodore, Dunedin Unit Director, [if not a co-author), Unit research staff, [add names of principal investigators who shared data with you, if they are not co-authors], previous Study Director, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, the late Richie Poulton, for his leadership during the Study’s research transition from young adulthood to aging (2000-2023), and Study founder, Dr Phil A. Silva.
The Dunedin Unit is located within the Ngāi Tahu tribal area who we acknowledge as first peoples, tangata whenua (people of this land).
Research assistance was provided by [name, name].
Comments on drafts were provided by [name, name].
For official crime data we thank the Dunedin Police [if you use police data].
Institutional affiliations, examples:
Institutions have become really strict about the way their names appear on publications so they get credit for papers when electronic search engines allocate products to universities and departments. For the Dunedin main investigators at Duke, the affiliations are:
Avshalom Caspi: MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Terrie E. Moffitt: MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.