All sources of funding for the work, personal connections, and institutional affiliations of the authors should be acknowledged in a footnote on the title page. An author should cite those publications that have been influential to the work. An author has an obligation to perform a literature search to find, and then cite, the original publications that describe closely related work. Unless a footnote or the text of the paper explicitly assigns responsibility for different parts of the paper to different authors, the authors whose names appear on a paper must share responsibility for all of it. Omitted citation can be interpreted as plagiarism.
Inaccurate documentation can lead to complications in future research.
An author should identify the source of all information quoted or offered, except that which is common knowledge. Information that has been obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, should not be used or reported in the author's work without explicit permission granted. Sensitive personal information about identifiable persons and information obtained in the course of confidential services should be treated similarly. American chemical society ethical guidelines. Authorship, data ownership examined.