Citation of data sets

All works which use or refer to the data available at BIBB-FDZ should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that these sources are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. In addition, users might refer to the particular BIBB-FDZ Daten- und Methodenberichte as a source where data is documented and described.

The Citations includes for each data set available at BIBB-FDZ:

• The full and a short title of the data set
• The doi-number
• The bibliographic citation for the particular BIBB-FDZ Daten- und Methodenberichte
• The bibliographic citation for the data set
• The citation in text form

Most citations on our german websites also include the englisch citation.
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