How to cite us
The general citation for the work of the Institute is:
| Crouch, Stephen; Chue Hong, Neil; Hettrick, Simon; Jackson, Mike; Pawlik, Aleksandra; Sufi, Shoaib; Carr, Les; De Roure, David; Goble, Carole; Parsons, Mark, "The Software Sustainability Institute: Changing Research Software Attitudes and Practices," Computing in Science & Engineering , vol.15, no.6, pp.74,80, Nov-Dec 2013. DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2013.133. |
If you are citing our work reported as "It's impossible to conduct research without software, say 7 out of 10 UK researchers", please cite the following dataset:
| Hettrick, S., et al. (2014). UK Research Software Survey 2014 [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14809 |
If you are citing our work reported as "Raising the status of software in research: A survey-based evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme", please cite the following paper:
| Sufi S and Jay C. Raising the status of software in research: A survey-based evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme [version 1; peer review: 3 approved with reservations]. F1000Research 2018, 7:1599 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.16231.1) |
Citations for different media | |
| General citation | "The Institute for Research Software is funded through the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure Programme through grant number AH/Z000114/1. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) leads the funding for the fourth phase of the SSI." "The Institute for Research Software has previously been funded by EPSRC Grant EP/H043160/1, EPSRC, BBSRC and ESRC Grant EP/N006410/1 and EPSRC, BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, AHRC, STFC and MRC grant EP/S021779/1." |
Paper (co-authored with the Institute) | "STAFF NAME was supported by the Institute for Research Software, funded through the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure Programme through grant number AH/Z000114/1." If the work resulted from a joint project, please add the following to the last sentence: "and NAME OF FUNDER through grant REFERENCE." |
Paper (acknowledging our help) | "We would like to acknowledge the assistance of the Institute for Research Software. The work carried out by the Institute for Research Software is funded through the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure Programme through grant number AH/Z000114/1." If the work resulted from a joint project, please add the following to the last sentence: "and specific support for this work was supported by NAME OF FUNDER through grant REFERENCE." |
| Blog | If you mention working with us in a blog, please use the following citation: "We would like to acknowledge the assistance of NAMES from the Institute for Research Software, funded through the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure Programme through grant number AH/Z000114/1." And link "Institute for Research Software" to the Institute for Research Software website. |
| Website | Use the Institute for Research Software logo, which should be linked to the URL of our website. And add the following text: "The Institute for Research Software cultivates world-class research with software. The Institute is based at the universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, and Southampton." If you wish to acknowledge specific work, you can also add: "We would like to acknowledge the assistance of NAMES from the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure Programme funded Institute for Research Software." |
| Slides | Use the Institute for Research Software logo and the URL of our website on the acknowledgements slide and preferably on the first slide of your presentation. If you carry out work supported by the Institute, you can use our slide template. |
How to use our brand
These are the brand guidelines of the Institute for Research Software. They explain what we stand for and how to express that consistently, visually and in writing, across every piece of communication.
Please use this toolkit whenever you are commissioning, designing, writing or approving anything
published under the Institute’s name.
You can access the brand guidelines document, logo files, and slide template in our branding kit below.
