How to Compile Acknowledgements

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
artist’s 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.