When using material for which permission has been cleared, it is important to acknowledge the source of that material

in the acknowledgements page of your book. An acknowledgement should always appear in the acknowledgements page, even if you have already made a full citation in the main text, foot or end notes. The acknowledgements page should effectively be a list of all those you have applied to for permission to reproduce material included in your book.

Where you have used material under the fair dealing principle, or you have simply drawn on or referred to other material (rather than reproducing material exactly) you should ensure that you reference the source of that material or data within the text or in end or foot notes. These sources should not be included in the acknowledgements page. More information on referencing can be found in your Advice to Authors booklet.

The letter you receive granting permission for you to reproduce material may specify the exact form of words the rights holder wishes you to use in an acknowledgement. It is important you use this form of words, since this forms a condition of the grant of rights. In other cases, rights holders may not specify the form of acknowledgement to be used in which case you should follow the form of our examples below.

Remember that the owner of the copyright is not necessarily in a position to grant permission. You need to ensure you have acquired rights from the owner of the publishing rights, who may or may not be the same person/company. The name of the publisher printed in a work may be different from the person/company granting permission. You should therefore thank the company that has granted permission in addition to specifying the imprint/company that the work was published under (see example 1).

The acknowledgements page should begin with a form of words such as:

The author(s)/editor(s) and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:

followed by a list of acknowledgements, either as provided by the rights holder, or as per the examples following:

1. an extract from a book

Taylor and Francis Group for pp.46-55, from Hugh Jones and Christopher Benson, Publishing Law, 2nd Edition, Routledge (2002)

2. a figure from a book

John Wiley, for figure 9.2, from M.A. Devanna, C.J. Fombrun and N.M. Tichy, A framework for strategic human resource management, in C.J. Fombrun et al., Strategic Human Resource Management (1984)

3. a journal article

Palgrave Macmillan for Nicolai Juul Foss and Torben Pedersen, Organising knowledge processes in the multinational corporation: an introduction in Journal of International Business Studies (2004) volume 35 issue 5

4. a newspaper article

NI Syndication Limited for Simon Jenkins Ministry of Fear Takes Over in The Times, 28 January 2005

5. an image

The Bridgeman Art Library, Whitford and Hughes, London and the artists family for A View Of Jerusalem by David Bomberg (1925)

6. material from a website

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. for essay writing: interpretation of the question by Bryan Greetham from skills4study, www.skills4study.com 2003

In the event that you have received permission to use material from a more unusual source, please try to follow the conventions above as far as possible, and flag this up to your copy editor who may be able to help you with a form of wording.

After the acknowledgements themselves, please insert a new paragraph as follows:

Every effort has been made to trace rights holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers would be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.