A growing number of journal articles are funded or co-funded. This blog covers funding notes in non-OA-articles and OA articles on a basis of “author pays” (the author is not eligible to publish in OA under an institutional agreement with Brill. For the latter category of OA, see Institutional Open Access Agreements (brill.com)).

Usually, the funding institution (could be the EU, for instance) must be credited. Usual instructions for such acknowledgements apply. An acknowledgement of some substance best is included at the end of the article, in a separate paragraph, under a level 1 heading (“Acknowledgements”). (Very) brief funding notes can be attached to an allowed element at the beginning of the article, as instructed in and by Central Desk Editing Journals earlier, the first level 1 heading in the article being most ideal for this purpose.

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Never even attach notes to typical metadata elements, except author name.

Third party credits and other special notes missing in the copy

With articles in EM, it could be that funding or any other notes that shall be typeset are not included in the copy but only in the EM metadata instead. Unfortunately there really isn't a way to ensure that all of this kind of information is included in the submission files themselves. For instance, in a recent case JRD-1034R1, we checked all relevant article content in EM and saw the funding information that the authors entered when they submitted the paper. They did indeed enter it in EM, without also including it in the manuscript file. However, any funding information entered in EM will also be included in the transmittal form, as it was for this manuscript:

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