Publication Guidelines
1. Acknowledgment to NRAO
Any papers using observational material taken with NRAO instruments (VLBA or otherwise) or papers where a significant portion of the work was done at NRAO, should include the following acknowledgment to NRAO and NSF:
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
2. Acknowledgment for DiFX
VLBA observations are currently correlated using NRAO's implementation of the DiFX software correlator. DiFX was developed at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, and is used by NRAO under license from Swinburne. We encourage users to include the following text in the Acknowledgments section of any publication arising from VLBA observations made since December 2009:
This work made use of the Swinburne University of Technology software correlator, developed as part of the Australian Major National Research Facilities Programme and operated under licence.
... and to cite the following recent paper by the developers: Deller, et al. 2011, PASP, 123, 275.
3. Dissertations
Students whose dissertations include observations made with NRAO instruments are expected to provide copies of, or links to, their theses for inclusion and maintenance at the NRAO library. These will be catalogued and made available via the NRAO library.
4. Reprints
Given the prevalence of electronic access to the literature, NRAO will no longer pay for the purchase of reprints of published papers.
