Attribution Guidelines

When your Hatch, Multi-State, Animal Health, or Formula Fund project results in a publication, poster, invention or presentation it is imperative to give proper attribution to the fund source.

Policy note from NIFA:

Proper acknowledgement of your public funding in published articles, manuscripts, dissertations, posters, presentations, inventions, patents, and press releases is critical for the success of the agency’s programs. As your project progresses, please use the following language to acknowledge NIFA support in such publications, as appropriate: 

This work is/was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, [insert project type, e.g. Hatch/Evans-Allen/McIntire Stennis] project [insert accession number].