Affiliation

Screenshot of a snippet of a scientific journal article which states the title of the article as well as the authors and their affiliations (highlighted in yellow)

Example of how authors and their affiliations are commonly given in a research article

In their publications, scientists usually provide information on their affiliation to at least one academic institution or research organisation. This relationship between an author and an institution is of great importance, for example for monitoring publication output of individuals and institutions as well as for billing of publication-based charges. Furthermore, the affiliation is required to be not only comprehensible and evaluable for individuals but also for computers. The information on the instutition therefore needs to be consistent and standardised.

It is thus important that members of Humboldt-Universität provide correct affiliation details and state their affiliation to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in a predefined standardised format. For this reason, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin issued affiliation guidelines which specify a consistent format for stating the affiliation to Humboldt-Universität, while allowing a certain degree of flexibility.

Affiliation guidelines of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The affiliation guidelines of Humboldt-Universität have been published in October 2020 (Amtliches Mitteilungsblatt 47/2020). They are intended to help researchers of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin to correctly label their publications. They are mandatory and must be complied with for all research publications.

The following reading version of the affiliation guidelines includes an English translation as well as explanations and examples that clearly illustrate the application of the guidelines and thus the correct indication of affiliation for researchers on only a few pages:

Support

The university library and the Research Service Centre offer support in regard to questions of giving the affiliation, the registration and use of ORCID iDs (see author identification) and other requests via epub-support@hu-berlin.de.