Rules of the Road - Authorship

Authorship

Any publication (conferences, engineering and scientific papers, review, …) which relates to the NOMAD project should follow the following rules:

  • For any journal publication that significantly uses Level 0 (raw) or Level 1 data (calibrated) directly or to derive Level 2 data (densities, temperatures, maps, surface characteristics, cloud/dust/aerosols loading and profiles, etc.), the following shall be contacted and included as co-authors if they agree:
      • First author, : the person who wrote the paper …
      • authors directly involved in the study, : whoever the first author thinks needs to be cited – order defined by first author. Support from Modelling teams should not be forgotten if provided. If needed the PI, co-PI and Lead co-Is may propose additional co-authors.
      • Include F. Daerden, I. R. Thomas and B. Ristic.
      • If you are using UVIS data, add also J. Mason and Y. Willame
      • M. R. Patel, G. Bellucci, M. A. López-Valverde, A.C. Vandaele, [if not already cited]

    • Send the publication prior to submission to all co-authors, allowing at least two weeks for review. All co-authors should read the manuscript and provide comments if they wish.

 

  • For publications where NOMAD is a minor data source, or for publications using Level 2 data (densities, temperatures, maps, surface characteristics, cloud/dust/aerosols loading and profiles, etc.), the following shall be contacted and included as co-authors if they agree:

      • First author, : the person who wrote the paper …
      • authors directly involved in the study, : whoever the first author thinks needs to be cited – order defined by first author. Support from Modelling teams should not be forgotten if provided. People having derived the higher level data should be included as co-authors. If needed the PI may propose additional co-authors.
      • A.C. Vandaele [if not already cited]

    • Send the publication prior to submission to all co-authors, allowing at least two weeks for review. All co-authors should read the manuscript and provide comments if they wish.

 

Some exceptions to these rules may apply for specific papers (general papers on the instrument or science objectives, special issues unrelated to NOMAD primary science goals, etc.) where the complete list of all co-Is should be mentioned, but PI approval shall be obtained first. Also for conferences where the number of co-authors is limited, those directly involved in the study should take priority; and if it is possible to include a team as the last co-author, the NOMAD team should be credited.

 

Please also remember when citing work that some results have been published in different papers by different authors over the years, so citations should be given to older papers upon whose work the newer papers are made. For example, SO water retrievals have been improved gradually through multiple publications, and so even when using the newest results, there should also be citations of older water papers. The UVIS nadir analysis is officially split between ozone retrievals (Mason et al.) and dust/cloud retrievals (Willame et al.), even though both retrieve both properties. Therefore papers using dust/cloud results must cite Willame et al., and those using ozone results must cite Mason et al., even if the Willame ozone dataset or the Mason cloud dataset is used for further analysis.

 

 

Acknowledgements

IASB-BIRA is to be accredited as the lead institute. The scientific institutions (IASB-BIRA, IAA, OU, INAF-IAPS) must be acknowledged in all publications, as well as the funding agencies. We encourage the use of the following acknowledgments sentence:

"The NOMAD experiment is led by the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (IASB-BIRA) with co-PI teams from Spain (IAA-CSIC), Italy (INAF-IAPS) and the United Kingdom (Open University). This project acknowledges funding by: the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) with the financial and contractual coordination by the ESA Prodex Office (PEA 4000103401, 4000121493, 4000140753, 4000140863); by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIU) and European funds (grants PGC2018-101836-B-I00 and ESP2017-87143-R; MINECO/FEDER), from the Severo Ochoa (CEX2021-001131-S) and from MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (grants PID2022-137579NB-I00, RTI2018-100920-J-I00 and PID2022-141216NB-I00); by the UK Space Agency (grants ST/V002295/1, ST/V005332/1, ST/X006549/1, ST/Y000234/1 and ST/R003025/1); and by the Italian Space Agency (grant 2018-2-HH.0). This work was supported by the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (grant 30442502; ET_HOME). US investigators were supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Canadian investigators were supported by the Canadian Space Agency."

 

Last updated May 2025