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Style manuals, citation guides

How to Cite Data

  • ANDS Guide: Data Citation
    • Australian National Data Service
    • The Guide covers: What we mean by data citation; How do you cite data?; Data citation styles and formats; Data citation for data repositories; Journals and data citation; Data citation elements for repository managers; Why include a DOI in data citations; How to count data citations; Connecting data and related citations; Implementing data citation at institutions
  • Data Citation: Guide to Best Practice.
    • Jessop, P., Publications Office of the European Union, 2022,
  • Data Citations 
    • U Libraries webpage on data citation.
  • Data Management
    • Supporting and enabling USGS data management - guidance, best practices, and tools for data management.
    • Data Citation
  • DataCite Metadata Schema  for the Publication and Citation of  Research Data  
    • The DataCite Metadata Schema is a list of core metadata properties chosen for the accurate and consistent identification of data for citation and retrieval purposes, along with recommended use instructions.
  • Guidance on Data Citation
    • Social Science Data Editors.
  •  How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications 
    • Ball, Alex & Duke, Monica. (2015)

      DCC How-to-guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre

  • Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles - FINAL 
    • Data Citation Synthesis Group: Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles. Martone M. (ed.) San Diego CA: FORCE11; 2014 A set of guiding principles for data within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other research object. The Data Citation Principles cover purpose, function and attributes of citations. These principles recognize the dual necessity of creating citation practices that are both human understandable and machine-actionable.
    • Examples 
      • Examples of how to cite data and data sets. (google slide set)
  •  What to do if you suspect fabricated data 
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