Common Form sections (step-by-step)
Identifying information
- Name, organization, and current position title
- Persistent Identifier (PID) — NIH expects your ORCID iD to appear here
- Confirm the ORCID shown in SciENcv matches the ORCID linked in eRA Commons
Professional Preparation
- Baccalaureate or other initial professional education
- All postdoctoral and fellowship training
- Keep entries in reverse chronological order by start date
- Review for duplicates after ORCID import
Appointments and Positions
- Put current appointments/positions first
- Include titled academic/professional/institutional appointments whether paid or unpaid, including adjunct, visiting, honorary, part-time, or voluntary roles
- Include outside appointments/positions for up to 3 years from the application submission date
- Keep it consistent with what your institution discloses elsewhere
Products (10 total)
Two buckets:
- Closely Related to the Proposed Project (up to 5)
Use these to support what you say in the Personal Statement. - Other Significant Products (up to 5)
Use these to support what you say in Contributions to Science.
Acceptable products are broader than papers. Depending on what is citable and accessible, products can include:
- Journal articles, books/chapters, conference papers, and presentations
- Websites, software, code, models, and technologies/techniques
- Patents, patent applications, and licenses
- Data sets, databases, physical collections, research materials, and interventions
- Instruments/equipment, educational aids/curricula, and new business creation
NIH says each product should follow the NIH hypertext policy and include the available citation details: authors, title, publication/release date, URL, persistent identifier (if available), and other relevant citation information. If one of those data elements truly does not apply, enter N/A.
Character limits matter more than pages: the new format is driven by character limits in narrative fields, not a strict page cap.