Should I add my affiliation as an Intern in a paper?

Question

I am a MS student in Physics, and doing a full-time internship in research lab of a company. Recently, I worked on a paper with some of my collaborators -- unrelated to the project that I'm doing with people in this company. Should/Can I also add this companies name as affiliation?

I found several somewhat related question but they doesn't directly answer this.

Answer 1

Since you are doing a paid internship, you are an employee of the company. If it has a research lab, it probably has a policy on publications and might have a policy on outside work. Ask your supervisor at the company about this situation.

Where I work, the relevant policies are:

• Any paper I publish using my workplace as my affiliation must be approved for publication by my boss and uploaded to our manuscript management system before I submit it.
• Any outside work that I do -- even in my own time -- must be approved by my boss in advance. This is particularly important for research work.

The upshot is that if I want to work on and publish a paper while working here, my boss needs to approve it one way or the other (either as outside work without my corporate affiliation or as a publication with my corporate affiliation).