The document emphasizes the importance of the acknowledgment section in academic papers, highlighting its role in providing relevant information to editors. It offers four tips for academic writers, including ranking those to thank based on their contributions, limiting acknowledgments to deserving individuals, and maintaining sincerity and clarity in expressing gratitude. Additionally, it advises on including conflict of interest statements and adhering to specific spelling conventions based on American or British English.

2. We often focus on the larger sections while writing,
editing, and proofreading academic paper, such as the
overall structure, information flow, methods, observation,
conclusion, and language.
A small section like Acknowledgement is overlooked and
considered unimportant.

3. However, the Acknowledgement section of your
manuscript provides the editor with the required
relevant information and must be written precisely by
including all necessary details.
In this presentation we present four tips that will aid
academic writers and those editors into PhD paper
editing while writing or editing the Acknowledgement
section.

4. • The list for expressing gratitude may be endless, but it is
advisable that you rank and sort people as per crucial
roles played.
• Limit the people by qualifying only those who truly
deserve an authorship.
• Example: A co-worker who helped you set up the lab and
arranged samples for the research experiments or the
statisticians who helped you with data analysis.
• Avoid over thanking. Gratitude must be sincere, clear, and
concise. Refrain from using flowery language and overtly
polite words.

5. • Sponsors are an integral part of your work, and
expressing your gratitude to your sponsors is as essential,
for their contribution has helped fuel your project
• Furthermore, this act of courtesy will earn you goodwill,
and the sponsor may be further willing to aid you for your
future work.

6. • A statement declaring conflicts of interest should be listed
even if there are no COI among the authors.
• Numerous journals provide a separate section for
submitting COI information. However, for those journals
that do not mention this exclusively, it is advisable to list
COI in the Acknowledgement.

7. When writing remember if paper is written in American
English then the letter ‘e’ will be omitted and if in British
English then ‘e’ will be added.
Example:
• American Spelling - ‘Acknowledgment’
• British Spelling- ‘Acknowledgement’
Nevertheless, it is recommended to check the standing
instructions given by the journal when writing/ PhD paper
editing.