Acknowledging PIMS Funding
If you have received funding from PIMS for your position or event, we ask that you acknowledge PIMS support whenever possible. Circumstances where it may be appropriate to acknowledge PIMS include:
- Publications
- Presentations
- Receiving honours and/or awards
- Participating in public relation activities
- Social media (tag @pimsmath on X and Instagram)
Suggested verbal acknowledgment (to use in speeches, lectures, etc):
"This research was supported in part by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences."
Suggested acknowledgement for written work (to use in articles, journals, submissions, press releases, news items, etc):
"I/We gratefully acknowledge that this research was supported in part by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences."
Additionally, for preprints and publications, we ask that, where possible, report identifiers are included to allow us to track publications supported by PIMS funding.
PIMS Preprint Report Identifiers
arXiv.org and some related related systems provide a facility for adding one or more "report identifiers" for submissions. To enhance the tracking and visibility of research outputs, PIMS has introduced a specific format for PIMS report identifiers for pre-prints and publications supported by PIMS. These identifiers can be added to any publication you are submitting and to existing publications without generating a new revision of your paper in arXiv (see below for instructions). The current report identifier format looks like
PIMS-<YEAR><MONTH><DAY>[-(CRG<CRG_NUMBER>|PRN<PRN_NUMBER>|PDF)]The fields used are
YEAR: The current year in 4 digit format, e.g. 2024MONTH: The current month in 2 digit format, e.g. 09DAY: The current day of the month in 2 digit format, e.g. 07
If your publication is associated with a PIMS CRG or PRN, or you are a PIMS Postdoctoral fellow, you should include one of the following strings in your report identifier(s). If you are a postdoctoral fellow and you are working as part of a CRG, please provide two separate report identifiers using this syntax (multiple report identifiers can be included by separating them with a semi-colon.
CRG: If the publication is part of a PIMS CRG, this field should be included as the three letter string "CRG" followed by the number assigned to your CRG. e.g.CRGPRN: If the publication is part of a PIMS PRN, this field should be included as the three letter string "PRN" followed by the number of your PRN, e.g.PRN2PDF: If you are a PIMS postdoctoral fellow, please include the three letter string "PDF"
Examples
PIMS-20240701-CRG36: A preprint associated with CRG36 submitted on July 1st, 2024.PIMS-20240818-PDF: A preprint submitted by a PIMS postdoctoral fellow on August 18th, 2024PIMS-20240903-CRG39;PIMS-20240903-PDF: A print submitted by a postdoc associated with CRG 39 on September 3rd, 2024.
Report numbers can be added to existing publications retroactively without generating a new version of your paper on arXiv. To do this, log in to arXiv and visit your user page. For each article you want to update, click on the "Journal Reference" icon in the actions column and add the PIMS tag in the Report Number field. If the field is already populated or you want to add more than one tag, separate them with semi-colons. For full instructions, see the arXiv documentation.
When posting pre-prints or publications on platforms which do-not support report identifiers, the PIMS report identifier should be included in the acknowledgements section if possible e.g., "This manuscript is identified by the PIMS report identifier "PIMS-20231206-CRG37".
Using the PIMS Logo
When acknowledging PIMS support in your poster, news release, social media image, or any other promotional material, please use the PIMS logo. You can find high-resolution versions of our logo here.