Datasets
Format for in-text citation
In-text citation example
… which has been well supported and illustrated by the data (Noble, 2019)
OR
Statistics from Ayton and Watzl (2007) indicate that…
Format for reference list
Elements, punctuation & capitalisation
With DOI
Author, A. A. (year). Title of data set [Data set]. Publisher Name or Source of Unpublished Data. https://doi.org/xxxxxxxxx
Without DOI
Author, A. A. (year). Title of data set [Data set]. Publisher Name or Source of Unpublished Data. URL
Reference list example
With DOI
Noble, C.(2019). Impacts of habitat disturbance on population health of Bornean frogs [Data set]. Imperial College London. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3485086
Without DOI
Ayton, J.& Watzl, R. (2007). A bibliography of polar medicine related articles [Data set]. Australian Antarctic Data Centre. https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/medical_bibliography
Make sure to look at the style notes
Style notes for this reference type
- The date for a published data set is the year of publication, for unpublished data, the date should be the year of collection.
- Include a retrieval date only if the data set is designed to change over time.
- The title of the data set should be italicized.
- A DOI for datasets should be included as part of the reference. If there is no DOI, include the URL of the webpage where the data is indexed.
- The recommended format for including DOI in references is https://doi.org/xxxxxxxxxx
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