A guide to best practice
Data citation: A guide to best practice is a study and collection of best practices and recommendations in the field of data citation. It was published by the OP in 2022. It is divided into 3 parts.
Part 1: issues in data citation, general recommendations.
Part 2: recommendations on specific formats and other elements for data citation.
Part 3: issues in data citation, general recommendations.
Below you will find the annexes that contain useful quick reference materials like checklists, diagrams and examples.
If you are interested in this topic, you can find a dedicated training in data.europa academy where the author, Paul Jessop, presents the study in an online seminar.
Useful links:
Data citation: A guide to best practice
Recording of the online seminar 'Data citation'
Slides from the online seminar 'Data citation'
Data citation training on data.europa academy.
In the following subsections you will find quick-reference material for data citation.
Checklist (long) for footnotes or reference-list entries
The following steps should be a checklist when creating a citation that will appear in a footnote or reference-list entry.
The key initial step is to refer to the metadata of the dataset that has been used. This may include a 'cite this dataset as' function. This will provide most, or all of the information needed, though it may appear in a slightly different format and some editing work may be needed.
Otherwise, the metadata should include all the information needed, though sometimes a little 'research' will be needed to locate some of it.
Source: Publications Office, Jessop, P., Data citation: A guide to best practice, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/59387
Checklist (short) for footnotes or reference- list entries
Elements:
Source: Publications Office, Jessop, P., Data citation: A guide to best practice, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/59387
Diagram for footnote and reference citation style with date format compliant with DCAT-AP
Elements:
Source: Publications Office, Jessop, P., *Data citation: A guide to best practice*, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/59387
Diagram for footnote and reference citation style with date format compliant with the Interinstitutional Style Guide
Elements:
Source: Publications Office, Jessop, P., Data citation: A guide to best practice, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/59387
Examples of citations with date format compliant with DCAT-AP
European Commission, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, 'Consolidated list of persons, groups, and entities subject to EU financial sanctions,' 2016 (updated 2020-10-23), accessed 2021-10-01, http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/consolidated-list-of-persons-groups-and-entities-subject-to-eu-financial-sanctions-fisma
European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises), 'Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) (csv subset) -- public procurement notices,' version 3.3, 2015 (updated 2020-11-22), http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/ted-csv
European Commission, Directorate-General for Informatics, 'National Interoperability Framework Observatory (NIFO) -- Digital Public Administration factsheets 2020', accessed 2021-10-01, http://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2906/100105103105116/1
European Commission, European Chemicals Agency, 'Mammalian toxicokinetic database (MamTKDB) 1.0,' version 1.0, 2021, accessed 2021-10-01, http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/mammalian-toxicokinetic-database-mamtkdb-1-0
European Commission, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 'COVID-19 coronavirus data -- daily (up to 14 December 2020)', accessed 2021-10-01, http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/covid-19-coronavirus-data-daily-up-to-14-december-2020
European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, 'Cosmetic ingredient database (Cosing) -- List of substances prohibited in cosmetic products,' 2016 (updated 2018-12-14), http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/cosmetic-ingredient-database-2-list-of-substances-prohibited-in- cosmetic-products
'European database of suspected adverse drug reaction reports (EudraVigilance),' European Commission, European Medicines Agency, 2015 (updated 2019-01-10), http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/suspected-adverse-drug-reaction-reports
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 'European Soil Database v2.0 (vector and attribute data),' 2021, accessed 2021-10-01, http://data.europa.eu/89h/jrc-esdac-1
Sevini, F. and Arnés-Novau, X., 'Export Control Handbook for Chemicals,' version 2021 edition, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), 2021, accessed 2021-10-01, http://data.europa.eu/89h/8f0d4fa2-110d-4c05-b2a8-ecd3addbf16b
Nijs, W. and Ruiz, P., '01_JRC-EU-TIMES Full model', European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 2019, http://data.europa.eu/89h/8141a398-41a8-42fa-81a4-5b825a51761b
'AMECO -- ECFIN annual macroeconomic database,' European Commission, Directorate- General for Economic and Financial Affairs, (updated 2020-11-05), http://data.europa. eu/88u/dataset/ameco
European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy, 'Energy modelling -- EU Reference Scenario 2016', http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/energy-modelling
European Commission, Eurostat, 'Airport traffic data by reporting airport and airlines' (avia_tf_apal), most recent data 2021-09-01, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ databrowser/view/avia_tf_apal/default/table?lang=en
European Commission, Eurostat, 'Total length of motorways' (ttr00002), accessed 2021-10-15, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ttr00002/default/ table?lang=en
European Commission, Eurostat, 'Real GDP growth rate -- volume' (tec00115), updated 2021-09-28, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tec00115/default/ table?lang=en
Publications Office of the European Union, 'Country Named Authority List,' 2009 (updated 2021-09-29), http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/country
Source: Publications Office, Jessop, P., Data citation: A guide to best practice, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/59387
Examples of citations with date format compliant with the Interinstitutional Style Guide
European Commission, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, 'Consolidated list of persons, groups, and entities subject to EU financial sanctions,' 2016 (updated 23 October 2020), accessed 1 October 2021, http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/consolidated-list-of-persons-groups-and- entities-subject-to-eu-financial-sanctions-fisma
European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, 'Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) (csv subset) -- public procurement notices,' version 3.3, 2015 (updated 22 November 2020), http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/ted-csv
European Commission, Directorate-General for Informatics, 'National Interoperability Framework Observatory (NIFO) -- Digital public administration factsheets 2020', accessed 1 October 2021, http://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2906/100105103105116/1
European Commission, European Chemicals Agency, 'Mammalian toxicokinetic database (MamTKDB) 1.0,' version 1.0, 2021, accessed 1 October 2021, http://data. europa.eu/88u/dataset/mammalian-toxicokinetic-database-mamtkdb-1-0
European Commission, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 'COVID-19 coronavirus data -- daily (up to 14 December 2020)', accessed 1 October 2021, http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/covid-19-coronavirus-data-daily-up-to- 14-december-2020
'European database of suspected adverse drug reaction reports (EudraVigilance),' European Commission, European Medicines Agency, 2015 (updated 10 January 2019), http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/suspected-adverse-drug-reaction-reports
European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, 'Cosmetic ingredient database (Cosing) -- List of substances prohibited in cosmetic products,' 2016 (updated 14 December 2018), http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/cosmetic-ingredient-database-2-list-of- substances-prohibited-in-cosmetic-products
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 'European soil database v2.0 (vector and attribute data),' 2021, accessed 1 October 2021, http://data.europa.eu/89h/jrc- esdac-1
Sevini, F. and Arnés-Novau, X., 'Export control handbook for chemicals,' version 2021 edition, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), 2021, accessed 1 October 2021, http://data.europa.eu/89h/8f0d4fa2-110d-4c05-b2a8-ecd3addbf16b
Nijs, W. and Ruiz, P., '01_JRC-EU-TIMES full model', European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 2019, http://data.europa.eu/89h/8141a398-41a8-42fa-81a4-5b825a51761b
'AMECO -- ECFIN annual macroeconomic database,' European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, (updated 5 November 2020), http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/ameco
European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy, 'Energy modelling -- EU reference scenario 2016', http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/energy-modelling
European Commission, Eurostat, 'Airport traffic data by reporting airport and airlines' (avia_tf_apal), most recent data 1 September 2021, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ databrowser/view/avia_tf_apal/default/table?lang=en
European Commission, Eurostat, 'Total length of motorways' (ttr00002), accessed 15 October 2021, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ttr00002/ default/table?lang=en
European Commission, Eurostat, 'Real GDP growth rate -- volume' (tec00115), updated 18 September 2021, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tec00115/ default/table?lang=en
Publications Office of the European Union, 'Country named authority list,' 2009 (updated 29 September 2021), http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/country
Source: Publications Office, Jessop, P., Data citation: A guide to best practice, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2830/59387