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Quickly read: Why to cite a dataset
If you have used the LUI calculation tool, please reference as indicated in the info file.
We provide a download option in BExIS for a citation string in various formats. You find it on every individual dataset landing page as a clickable button. Furthermore, in BExIS is a multi-download possible via the Tools entry in the main menu.
Please add the citation strings of the datasets in the reference section next to the publications!
We follow the DataCite Metadata Schema in our citation string compilation and DOI metadata provision. Therefore only the data creators are used as authors for the citation string. If a person is to appear in the citation string, they must be specified as a creator. Please consider that a creator should be one of the "The main researchers involved in producing the data...". We provide further roles within the BExIS metadata. Data Collectors are "Persons responsible for finding or gathering/collecting data under the guidelines of the creator or PIs". PIs are "Persons officially designated as head of project team or sub-project team instrumental in the work necessary to development of the resource".
When assigning a DOI, metadata is generated and sent to the DataCite service. This metadata also contains more information about the contributors, such as the data collectors, PIs, etc. This information is increasingly being used to create links between academic resources. With DataCite Commons, for example, works (data and publication), people, organizations, and repositories are linked. This shows the scientific networking and all participants are honored for their work.
For citation strings, we use these formats:
List of data creators separated by semicolons (Creation date): Title. Dataset version with a leading "Version". Publisher, which is Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Type of resource, which is "Dataset". For internal data: URL of the repository, which is "https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de/". ID of the dataset with a leading "Dataset ID =" / For public data: URL or DOI of the dataset.
Example internal data: Schäfer, Deborah; Hinderling, Judith (2023): Vegetation summary and biomass data for 150 grassland EPs in 2017 without species identities. Version 4. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de. Dataset ID= 31466
Example public data (URL): Hinderling, Judith; Bolliger, Ralph (2023): Vegetation records 2020-2022 for new grassland experiment REX and LUX. Version 8. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://www.bexis.uni-jena.deddm/data/Showdata/31411?version=8
Example public data (DOI): Seibold, Sebastian; Goßner, Martin; Simons, Nadja; Blüthgen, Nico; Müller, Jörg; Ambarli, Didem; Ammer, Christian; Bauhus, Jürgen; Fischer, Markus; Fürstenau, Cornelia; Jan C. Habel; Linsenmair, Karl Eduard; Nauss, Thomas; Ostrowski, Andreas; Penone, Caterina; Prati, Daniel; Schall, Peter; Schulze, Ernst-Detlef; Vogt, Juliane; Wöllauer, Stephan; Weisser, Wolfgang (2019): Arthropod data from 150 grassland plots, 2008-2017, and 140 forest plots, 2008-2016, used in "Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with drivers at landscape level", Nature. Version 3. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25829/bexis.25786-1.3.11
We suggest the following statement:
This work is based on data elaborated by [a project / several projects] of the Biodiversity Exploratories program (DFG Priority Program 1374). The datasets are publicly available in the Biodiversity Exploratories Information System (http://doi.org/10.17616/R32P9Q).
Usually, if the dataset citation strings are part of the reference section of your paper (as strongly suggested), you can add the following sentence:
The datasets are listed in the references section.
Otherwise, please include:
List of IDs, URLs, or DOIs of the publicly available datasets.
Should some data cannot be published immediately, please add the following statement to the sentence above:
However, to give data owners and collectors time to perform their analysis the Biodiversity Exploratories' data and publication policy includes by default an embargo period of three years from the end of data collection/data assembly which applies to the remaining datasets (IDs: yyy). These datasets will be made publicly available via the same data repository.
yyy: List of IDs, URLs, or DOIs of the datasets that are not publicly available.
Please state the following in the acknowledgments of Exploratory manuscripts: We thank the managers of the three Exploratories, PLEASE INSERT THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE MANAGERS WHEN YOUR DATA WAS COLLECTED and all former managers for their work in maintaining the plot and project infrastructure; PLEASE ENTER THE RESP. BEO COORDINATOR NAME(S) for giving support through the central office, THE RESPECTIVE DATA MANAGER for managing the central database, and Markus Fischer, Eduard Linsenmair, Dominik Hessenmöller, Daniel Prati, Ingo Schöning, François Buscot, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Wolfgang W. Weisser and the late Elisabeth Kalko for their role in setting up the Biodiversity Exploratories project. We thank the administration of the Hainich national park, the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Swabian Alb and the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide-Chorin as well as all land owners for the excellent collaboration. The work has been (partly) funded by the DFG Priority Program 1374 "Biodiversity- Exploratories" (DFG-Refno.). Field work permits were issued by the responsible state environmental offices of Baden-Württemberg, Thüringen, and Brandenburg.
Wir danken den Manager:innen der drei Exploratorien, BITTE NAMEN DER PERSONEN EINFÜGEN, DIE MANAGER:INNEN WAREN ALS DIE DATEN ERHOBEN WURDEN und allen ehemaligen Manager:innen für ihre Arbeit bei der Aufrechterhaltung der Plots und der Projektinfrastruktur; BITTE DEN NAMEN DER ENTSPRECHENDEN BEO KOORDINATORIN EINFÜGEN für die Unterstützung durch das zentrale Koordinationsbüro, ENTSPRECHENDEN DATENMANAGER für die Verwaltung der zentralen Datenbank und Markus Fischer, Eduard Linsenmair, Dominik Hessenmöller, Daniel Prati, Ingo Schöning, François Buscot, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Wolfgang W. Weisser und der verstorbenen Elisabeth Kalko für ihre Rolle bei der Einrichtung des Projekts „Biodiversität Exploratorien“. Wir danken der Verwaltung des Nationalpark Hainich, dem UNESCO Biosphärenreservat Schwäbische Alb und dem UNESCO Biosphärenreservat Schorfheide-Chorin sowie allen Landbesitzer:innen für die ausgezeichnete Zusammenarbeit. Die Untersuchungen wurden durch das DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1374 " Biodiversitäts-Exploratorien" (in Teilen) gefördert (Kostenstelle angeben). Alle notwendigen Genehmigungen der zuständigen Umweltämter von Baden-Württemberg, Thüringen und Brandenburg lagen vor
Manager:innen Alb
- 2022 – now Julia Bass, Max Müller
- 2021 – 2022 Max Müller
- 2020 – 2021 Julia Bass
- 2018 – 2020 Kirsten Reichel-Jung and Florian Staub
- 2017 – 2018 Kirsten Reichel-Jung, Iris Steitz, and Sandra Weithmann
- 2014 – 2017 Kirsten Reichel-Jung
- 2009 – 2014 Swen Renner
- 2006 – 2009 Konstans Wells
Manager:innen Hainich
- 2024 – now Sven Pompe, Anna K. Franke
- 2023 – 2024 Anna K. Franke
- 2022 – 2023 Anna K. Franke, Robert Künast
- 2021 – 2022 Robert Künast
- 2021 – 2021 Miriam Teuscher
- 2020 – 2021 Anna K. Franke
- 2017 – 2020 Juliane Vogt
- 2013 – 2016 Katrin Lorenzen
- 2011 – 2013 Kerstin Wiesner
- 2006 – 2011 Sonja Gockel
Manager:innen Schorfheide
- 2023 – now Melissa Jüds
- 2023 - 2023 Franca Marian, Melissa Jüds
- 2022 – 2023 Franca Marian, Max Müller, Uta Schumacher
- 2020 – 2022 Franca Marian
- 2016 – 2020 Miriam Teuscher
- 2010 – 2015 Martin Gorke
- 2006 – 2010 Andreas Hemp
BEO
- 2020 – now Victoria Grießmeier
- 2017 – 2020 Christiane Fischer
- 2016 – 2017 Christiane Fischer and Jule Mangels
- 2013 – 2015 Christiane Fischer
- 2012 – 2013 Simone Pfeiffer and Christiane Fischer
- 2011 – 2012 Simone Pfeiffer
- 2009 – 2010 Simone Pfeiffer and Maren Gleisberg
- 2006 – 2009 Simone Pfeiffer
BExIS
- 2017 – now Andreas Ostrowski
- 2012 – 2017 Michael Owonibi
- 2007 – 2011 Jens Nieschulze
Please state the following in the acknowledgments of Exploratory manuscripts: We thank the managers of the three Exploratories, Max Müller, Julia Bass, Robert Künast, Miriam Teuscher, Anna K. Franke, Franca Marian and all former managers for their work in maintaining the plot and project infrastructure; Victoria Grießmeier for giving support through the central office, Andreas Ostrowski for managing the central database, and Markus Fischer, Eduard Linsenmair, Dominik Hessenmöller, Daniel Prati, Ingo Schöning, François Buscot, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Wolfgang W. Weisser and the late Elisabeth Kalko for their role in setting up the Biodiversity Exploratories project. We thank the administration of the Hainich national park, the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Swabian Alb and the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide-Chorin as well as all land owners for the excellent collaboration. The work has been (partly) funded by the DFG Priority Program 1374 "Biodiversity- Exploratories" (DFG-Refno.). Field work permits were issued by the responsible state environmental offices of Baden-Württemberg, Thüringen, and Brandenburg.