Citation

Four weeks after increasing the status of a data set to published, it becomes citable. The citation, which is displayed prominently at the beginning of a data set description (format is a common one), includes the following elements:


 * 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 added to Pangaea, followed by a colon
 * Title of the data set
 * Source (optional); institution, only used if data are not related to a scientific reference
 * Publisher; will mostly be Pangaea
 * DOI (Digital Object Identifier); begins with 10.1594/PANGAEA. ...

Example of a data set published in a scientific paper:
 * Michels, Klaus; Grobe, Hannes (2000): Silt grain size distribution of sediment core PS1599-3, PANGAEA, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.57742

Example of a data set 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, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.269632

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