Description
Data citation refers to the practice of providing a reference to data in the same way as researchers routinely provide a bibliographic reference to other scholarly resources.
The Guide covers:
- What we mean by data citation
- Did you know…?
- 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
- ANDS services for data citation
Key messages
- Data is increasingly being recognised as a primary research output
- Many journal publishers now encourage or require citation of research data
- There is a global network of discipline and institutional data repositories where research data collections are described with a preformatted citation statement provided
- Only cited data can be counted and tracked (in a similar manner to journal articles) to measure impact
- A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be assigned to data in the same way as journal articles
- Data citation information may soon be incorporated into practices for research evaluation and reward
- Some bibliographic management systems now include a template for research data citations.