Reference

Several references can be related to a dataset, but in principle, real primary data should be supplementary to one reference only. For information how to cite a PANGAEA dataset, see Citation.

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: Publication type (used internally for references formatting)
 * Attachments (optional)

Relations between a datasets and references
This describes relations between a Data set and References, which can be either external references or other datasets in PANGAEA, as well as documentation stored as attachments of references in PANGAEA's database. In the second column the relevant Datacite relation type is listed.

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