What is a data citation and what makes it different from other citations? |
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How to Write a Data Citation |
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Principle 2: “Data citations should facilitate giving scholarly credit and normative and legal attribution to all contributors to the data, recognizing that a single style or mechanism of attribution may not be applicable to all data” (ibid, 2014).
In accordance with the principle above, our guide will give some methods for citing data, but each of these methods can and should be adjusted according to the information available in the source and what seems appropriate.
The first four listed are core citation elements needed to properly cite a source. These should always be included in the writings if available. We will not delve into each of these in this post, but there are numerous online guides to identifying these elements.
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Core Citation Elements: Author or Rights-holder, Title, Date, Publisher or Distributor
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Holahan, J and Long, S.K. (2013). Health Reform Monitoring Survey, United States, Third Quarter 2019 (ICPSR 37922; Version V1). [Data set]. Health and Medical Care Archive. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37922.v1
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Numerical ID and Version number; What is the version number on your data?
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Desai, Sonalde, Vanneman, Reeve, and National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. (2005). India Human Development Survey (IHDS) (ICPSR 22626; Version 2018-08-08). [Data set]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22626.v12
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Description of Form; What form does your data take (e.g., “[Dataset and codebook],” or “[Dataset]”)? This may not be listed in the source, so use your best judgment.
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NatureServe and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). (2007). Crotaphytus reticulatus (Version 2018-2). [Dataset]. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
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Source of Published Material; This is typically in place of a publisher. If your data are from an existing study, cite the publication which the data was retrieved from (journal article, report, webpage) instead of the data set alone. |
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Nasa Exoplanet Archive. (2019). Composite Planet Data Table [Data set]. NASA Exoplanet Archive. https://catcopy.ipac.caltech.edu/dois/doi.php?id=10.26133/NEA2.
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Persistent Identifiers (PIDs); What are the specific PIDs needed to find, cite, and access the data? This may be represented as digital object identifiers (DOIs), reference numbers, ARK, HANDL, PURL, etc. |
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University of California, Los Angeles. (2017). Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Surveys [LAMAS] 3, 1971 (ICPSR 36611; V1). Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36611.v1
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Basic APA Citation Template |
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Citation template |
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This post is part of our series Research Bites. Come back every month for a new installment.
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Works Cited |
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APA Citation Guide. (2021). Santa Fe College. https://sfcollege.libguides.com/apa/components#:~:text=All%20APA%20reference%20list%20entries,Author Chicago Style citations: Chicago Style The Core Elements. (2020). Lakeland Community College Library. https://research.lakelandcc.edu/c.php?g=725335&p=5177259 Data Citation Synthesis Group: Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles. Martone M. (ed.) San Diego CA: FORCE11; 2014 https://doi.org/10.25490/a97f-egyk Elements of Reference List Entries. (2019). American Psychological Association. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/elements-list-entry |
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