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17- Data Citation Mechanism and Service for Scientific Data: Defining a Framework for Biodiversity Data Publishers
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... What is needed is a data citation mechanism with a defined citation style that can provide recognition to all stakeholders involved with their roles, such as who is the producer of the data, who is the publisher, who is the aggregator, and who provided curation service to the data. Given the complexity of our network, we require cascading citations, which are citations within the citations.
From page 114...
... Table 17-1 provides a sampling of GBIF's styles for potential citation strings or styles for the publisher supplied citations. Complete formulation Short formulation Style 1 Publisher (individual)
From page 115...
... Therefore, we urgently need to have all these citation styles propagated in the form of a best practice guide. However, we also need to remember that there are social challenges related to updating the current practices.


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