76 Citing a Data Set
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When you are writing, check the style guide to which you are adhering (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Vancouver) for how data sets should be cited.
DataCite, a nonprofit organization that provides persistent identifiers, also provides data citation guidelines.
Data citations should include:
- The data set creator
- Publication date
- Title
- Publisher (repository name)
- Persistent identifier (e.g., DOI) or URL
- Version
- Note that some data sets may have version numbers. It’s important to cite the version of the data you have used if there is one.
- Date accessed (this may be optional in some citation styles)
Example citations:
This lesson is adapted from Cornell University’s Research Data Management Service Group’s webpage, Data Citation at https://data.research.cornell.edu/content/data-citation. Licensed CC-BY 4.0.
