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Data Citations

Data citations are important not only to give proper credit to the data producer, but also to enable readers of your work to access the data, for their own use or to replicate your results. Make sure the following elements are present in your citation:

  • Creators
  • Date (year of publication)
  • Title
  • Version or edition
  • Publisher, data center or repository
  • Identifier or permanent URL