Citations & Acknowledgments

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When to Acknowledge the Indiana CTSI

The Indiana CTSI is partially supported by a Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). If you use Indiana CTSI resources or received funding from us in your research, including pilot funding, federal law requires you to cite our CTSA in your publication. Examples of publications include:

How to Cite the Indiana CTSI

Examples of acknowledgment text are based on the type of award you received. We recognize that the acknowledgment may be modified to satisfy specific journal policies.

“This project was funded with support from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute which is funded in part by Award Number T32TR004389 from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

“This project was funded with support from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute which is funded in part by Award Number TL1TR002531 from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

“This project was funded with support from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute which is funded in part by Award Number KL2TR002530 from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

“This project was funded with support from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute which is funded in part by Award Number K12TR004415 from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

“This project was funded with support from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute which is funded in part by Award Number UM1TR004402 from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

“The project described was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health under award number R25TR004387. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

Investigators must ALSO acknowledge NCRR Construction Grant RR020128.

Citing REDCap

The REDCap database service is provided by the Indiana CTSI. If your research used REDCap as a database tool, please remember to acknowledge its use in your citations.

Study data were collected and managed using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at Indiana University.1,2 REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure, web-based software platform designed to support data capture for research studies, providing 1) an intuitive interface for validated data capture; 2) audit trails for tracking data manipulation and export procedures; 3) automated export procedures for seamless data downloads to common statistical packages; and 4) procedures for data integration and interoperability with external sources.

“REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) data collection projects rely on a thorough study-specific data dictionary defined in an iterative self-documenting process by all members of the research team. The iterative development and testing process results in a well-planned data collection strategy for individual studies.

IU REDCap servers are securely housed in on-site, limited access data centers managed by University Information Technology Services at Indiana University. The web-based interface for IU REDCap encrypts all data transmitted to and from IU REDCap, and IU REDCap data are stored on a private, firewall-protected network. Data are backed up regularly, and those backups are stored at separate data centers in Indianapolis, IN and Bloomington, IN.

All users are given individual user ids and passwords and their access is restricted on a role-specific basis. REDCap was developed specifically around HIPAA Privacy and Security guidelines, and is implemented and maintained at Indiana University according to NIST 800-53 and Indiana University guidelines.

REDCap software is licensed by over 6,500 academic/non-profit consortium partners in more than 150 countries, with millions of users worldwide.”

This language was adapted from the following sources:

1PA Harris, R Taylor, R Thielke, J Payne, N Gonzalez, JG. Conde, Research electronic data capture (REDCap) – A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support, J Biomed Inform. 2009 Apr;42(2):377-81.

2PA Harris, R Taylor, BL Minor, V Elliott, M Fernandez, L O’Neal, L McLeod, G Delacqua, F Delacqua, J Kirby, SN Duda, REDCap Consortium, The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software partners, J Biomed Inform. 2019 May 9 [doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103208]

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  • For Acknowledgment Questions:

    Joe D. Hunt, MPH
    Director, Tracking & Evaluation
    Email
    317-274-2292

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