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This LibGuide is being phased out and the information in it is no longer up to date. The new RDM Handbook is now available at https://rdm.vu.nl/
Citation Elements
Citing data is not different from citing a publication. Make sure to check the rules of the journal to know how you should cite when writing an article for a specific academic journal. For all of the journals, however, the minimum compulsory elements in a data citation include:
Author(s): Name of the author (creator) of the dataset
Title: Name of the dataset
Date of publication
Publisher: Archive where dataset is stored
Persistent Identifier: Unique identifier, most common is the DOI (see section Data Publication).
Optional elements that may be included in the reference are:
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