Citation

The name of the information system PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data points to its ability to publish data. By using Pangaea like a publisher the operating institutions intend to establish the data citation with a handling similar to the standard text publication: citable, long-term and reliable access, easy-to-find and provided through library catalogs.

A publication always has a well defined citation consisting of a minimum of bibliographic fields, used to reference it and to find its content. Pangaea can publish data by making them citable; citations are included in library catalogs (e.g. TIBOrder). Similar to text publications, data publications can not be changed after the editorial and publication process.

The citation of a Pangaea data set is displayed at the beginning of its data set description and includes the following fields:
 * Author(s); last name followed by first name, separated by komma; authors separated by semikolon
 * Year of publication, in brackets, i.e. the year when the data set was made available via Pangaea
 * Title of the data set
 * Source institution; is optional and only used if data are not published through a given reference
 * Publisher is PANGAEA by default
 * DOI (Digital Object Identifier); starting with 10.1594/PANGAEA. ...

Pangaea provides two options on how to make data citable:

Example of supplementary data published in a scientific paper:
 * Michels, Klaus; Grobe, Hannes (2000): Silt grain size distribution of sediment core PS1599-3, PANGAEA,  as child of the parent set of all data sets related to the reference given .

Example of a data set solely published through Pangaea with the institute given as the data source:
 * König-Langlo, Gert (2005): Meteorological observations during POLARSTERN cruise ARK-XVII/2, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, 

Suggestion for a note to the supplementary data in a publication:
 * For primary data see 

Suggestion for a note in a book or special volume of a journal containing various publications refering to the general use of Pangaea:
 * ''All data related to publications of this volume (as well as any other data mentioned herein) are available in Open Access through the data library PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data (www.pangaea.de). Individual data sets are referenced by its DOI for direct access and citation.