Make Sure to Give Credit Where It is Due
Gathering data and making it available requires a considerable investment of expertise and resources. Make sure to acknowledge that work by citing your datasets and other data resources.
Check the source of your data set or data resource to see if they offer a suggested citation that may give you a head start.
Citation Styles for Data Sets
format:
author(s). (date). title (number and/or version, if applicable) [Data Set]. publisher, if not already noted as author. DOI or URL
example:
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (September 21, 2012). Survey of Data Curation Services for Repositories, 2012. (ICPSR 34202, Version V1) [Data set]. ICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34202.v1
For more information, refer to APA Style: Data set references.
format:
author, "title," publisher, if not already noted as author, date, DOI or URL.
example:
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, "Survey of Data Curation Services for Repositories: 2012," ICPSR, September 21, 2012, https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34302.v1.
format:
author(s). title. [version, if applicable], [number, if applicable], [publisher, if not already noted as author], date, DOI or URL.
example:
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Survey of Data Curation Services for Repositories, 2012. version V1, ICPSR 34302, 2012, https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34302.v1.
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