Reference

Several references can be related to a data set, but in principle, real primary data should be supplementary to one reference only.

Definition of a reference

 * Persistent identifier (DOI)
 * Author(s): Full names
 * Title: full title (not abbreviated, lower case for all words but for proper nouns, no full stop at end)
 * Source: this field should be used for monographs, e.g.
 * Books - In: Bleil, U & Thiede, J (eds.), Geological History of the Polar Oceans, NATO ASI Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, London
 * grey literature like special reports, etc. not published in a series
 * disseration thesis, self published and issued just by the university
 * Journal: full title, not abbreviated
 * Volume: 53(2)
 * Pages: 34-67 or 123 pp for complete books, thesis, reports etc.
 * Year: publication year
 * Status: contains the "prepublication" status of a reference (submitted, accepted, in review, in press).
 * Serial No (optional): proprietary publication number, e.g. AWI publ No 1234 or PKDB56789
 * Type: choose as appropriate from the Publication type choices list
 * Keywords (optional): select from thesaurus or define new as required

Citation
For information how to cite a PANGAEA dataset, see Citation.

Links

 * Connotea Free online reference management (provided by Nature, operation stopped in 2013)
 * refbase Web Reference Database
 * example: Literature Database SK Ozeanographie (not valid anymore in 2014)
 * ISO standard for bibliographic referencing