Funder guidance · 15 funders · 15 CRediT statement guides

Funder guidance for authors

What each major research funder expects from you as an author: whether a CRediT contributor statement is required, recommended, encouraged or absent from policy text; the open-access and data-sharing rules attached to the award; the submission system and biosketch format; and how to word the statement itself. Grouped below by how firmly each funder's own policy text commits to CRediT.

CRediT status

Recommended (4)

Policy text recommends a CRediT statement on funded outputs.

CRediT status

Encouraged (8)

Guidance or programme calls reference CRediT, but formal policy text is silent.

CRediT status

Silent (3)

No published funder stance on CRediT or contributor taxonomies.

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Funder guidance for authors

Recommended (4)

Gates Foundation

HHMI

NIHR

Wellcome

Encouraged (8)

ARC

CIHR

ERC

Horizon Europe

MRC

NHMRC

NIH

UKRI

Silent (3)

NSERC

NSF

SSHRC

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