Funding source
Funding source(s)
Authors must specify the institutions or entities that provided financial support for the conduct of the study and/or the preparation of the manuscript. When applicable, the extent of the funder's involvement in different stages of the research, such as study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, manuscript preparation, and the decision to submit for publication, must be clearly indicated. If the funder had no role in any of these stages, this must be explicitly stated in the manuscript.
The funding statement should follow this format: “This study was funded by [Name of Institution] ([Grant Number]); [Name of Institution] ([Grant Number]); and [Name of Institution] ([Grant Number])”.
If the research did not receive any funding, this should also be clearly indicated in the corresponding section.