For you

What RRIDs mean for your role.

Pick your role for the three things worth doing first.

Publishers & editors

RRIDs make methods checkable and linkable.

  1. Add RRIDs to your author instructions. Copy our template text
  2. Tag them in JATS XML with the resource-id element. JATS guidance
  3. Check them at submission, for example with the MDAR checklist or an automated tool. Options

Researchers

An RRID tells readers exactly which antibody, cell line or tool you used, and credits the people who made it.

  1. Look up each key resource on rrid.site. How to cite
  2. Add the RRID where you first mention the resource, or in a Key Resources Table.
  3. Add RRIDs to your works on ORCID, which accepts them since October 2026.

Core facilities & institutions

About 3,000 facilities already have an RRID. Cited RRIDs show what your facility contributes to published research.

  1. Register your facility and get an RRID. Register
  2. Ask users to cite it in their acknowledgements and methods. Suggested wording
  3. Link it to your institution's ROR ID. RRID and ROR for facilities

Funders

RRIDs show which funded resources are used, and make the research you fund easier to reproduce.

  1. Ask grantees to cite key resources with RRIDs, as ASAP does. Policy language
  2. Ask for RRIDs in reports on funded resources and facilities.
  3. Support RRIDs.org as shared infrastructure. How we are funded

Vendors & authorities

When your products carry RRIDs, every citation points straight back to the right catalogue item.

  1. Show the RRID on each product page and datasheet.
  2. Send new and discontinued products to the relevant authority. How
  3. Run a registry? Become an RRID authority for your resource type. Talk to us