--- author: - contributor_roles: [] family: Edmunds given: Scott url: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6444-1436 blog: authors: null community_id: 52db0518-e228-4260-8c54-c4e323b2569d created: 1675555200 current_feed_url: null description: Data driven blogging from the GigaScience editors doi: https://doi.org/10.59350/gigablog favicon: https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/52db0518-e228-4260-8c54-c4e323b2569d/logo feed_format: application/atom+xml feed_url: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/feed/atom/ filter: null generator: Other home_page_url: https://gigasciencejournal.com/blog issn: null language: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode prefix: '10.59350' relative_url: null secure: false slug: gigablog status: archived subfield: '1311' title: GigaBlog updated: null use_api: null container: GigaBlog date: '2014-02-28T00:00:00+00:00' date_updated: '2025-12-06T10:42:28+00:00' guid: http://finaloriginalblogs.dev/gigablog/?p=1024 identifier: https://doi.org/10.59350/sxvc4-9nq06 image: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129-300x217.png images: - height: '217' sizes: '(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px' src: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129-300x217.png srcset: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129-300x217.png, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129-768x556.png, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129-1024x741.png, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129.png width: '300' - height: '516' sizes: '(max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px' src: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM.png srcset: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM.png, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM-300x198.png, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM-768x507.png width: '782' - src: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129.png - src: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM.png issn: null keywords: - Publishing - Chickpea - Data Citation - Database - Genome lang: en license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode reference: - id: https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-223 unstructured: 'Edmunds, S. C., Pollard, T. J., Hole, B., & Basford, A. T. (2012). Adventures in data citation: sorghum genome data exemplifies the new gold standard. BMC Research Notes, 5(1).' - id: https://doi.org/10.5524/100076 unstructured: Varshney, R. K., Song, C., Saxena, R. K., Azam, S., Yu, S., Sharpe, A. G., Cannon, S., Baek, J., Rosen, B. D., Taran, B., Millan, T., Zhang, X., Ramsay, L. D., Iwata, A., Wang, Y., Nelson, W., Farmer, A. D., Gaur, P. M., Soderlund, C., … Cook, D. R. (2014). Genomic data of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum). [Data set]. GigaScience Database. - id: http://www.force11.org/datacitation/ unstructured: Unknown title - id: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/having-a-finger-on-the-pulse-of-data-citation/ unstructured: Unknown title - id: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog unstructured: Unknown title rid: wc9fa-npj22 rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode summary: Endorsing Data Citation Nicely timed for the Data Citation Principles workshop at the IDCC meeting in San Francisco yesterday, the finalized Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles has just been posted on the Force11 website. title: Having a finger on the pulse of data citation url: https://wayback.archive-it.org/22098/2025-05-01T17:13:42Z/http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/having-a-finger-on-the-pulse-of-data-citation version: v1 --- [![](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129-300x217.png){.alignleft .size-medium .wp-image-1025 loading="lazy" decoding="async" srcset="http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129-300x217.png 300w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129-768x556.png 768w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129-1024x741.png 1024w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129.png 1488w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" width="300" height="217"}](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cicer_arietinum_Taub129.png)**Endorsing Data Citation**\ Nicely timed for the [Data Citation Principles workshop](http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc14/workshops "IDCC14 workshop on datacitation"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} at the [IDCC meeting](http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc14 "IDCC14 meeting"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} in San Francisco yesterday, the finalized Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles has [just been posted on the Force11 website](http://www.force11.org/datacitation/ "Force11 Data Citation Principles"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}. We of course [endorse these](http://www.force11.org/datacitation/endorsements "Data Citation endorsers list"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, as data citation is an area we have been promoting and practicing since our formation, using it as a mechanism to incentivize and credit the early release of data from data producers. Most of the challenges have been cultural rather than technical, and despite some setbacks ([for example from *Nature Genetics*](http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/2012/12/21/promoting-datacitation-in-nature/ "Problems with Nat Genetics DOIs"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}), for over two years now we have had generally positive interactions working closely with publishers to make sure our dataset citations have been correctly cited according to [DCC and DataCite guidelines](http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/cite-datasets "DCC guidelines on data citation"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}. From working very closely with the editors of *Genome Biology* our [sorghum dataset](http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100012 "Sorghum DOI"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} was our first to be correctly cited in the references of a [published paper](http://genomebiology.com/2011/12/11/R114 "Sorghum Genome Biology paper"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, and BioMed Central now uses this example in the [formatting instructions](http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/authors/instructions/research#formatting-references "BMC I4A for referencing"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} for all of their journals. We have [blogged regularly on the topic](http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/tag/data-citation/ "Data citation in GigaBlog"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, but for a more detailed overview of our and others efforts in data citation check out [our paper](http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/223 "Res Notes paper on Data Citation"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} in the [*BMC Research Notes* Data standardization, sharing and publication series.](http://www.biomedcentral.com/series/datasharing "Res Notes series"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} **Amounting to more than a hill of beans: new data and functionality in GigaDB**\ Following in the footsteps of sorghum, the latest dataset to be published in GigaDB today is another agricultural crop important to food security in the developing world, [the genome of the chickpea](http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100076 "Chickpea DOI"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}. As with sorghum, this is another useful example for data citation, being release just in time to showcase new functionality in our *GigaScience* [GigaDB database](http://gigadb.org/ "GigaDB homepage"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}. The latest release just out this week includes a number of new features, including some minor improvements to formatting, browsing and the submission system, and the ability to contact dataset authors directly, but most relevant here it now has citation manager support. Using functionality handily provided by [DataCite](http://www.datacite.org/ "DataCite website"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, we have added new buttons to allow citation information to be downloaded in [RIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIS_%28file_format%29 "RIS wikipedia page"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, [BibTeX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibtex "BibTex wikipedia"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} and text (see the blue boxes next to the citation information in the screen shot below), allows citation information to be downloading in a format suitable for most citation manager software.\ [![](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM.png){.alignleft .size-full .wp-image-1029 loading="lazy" decoding="async" srcset="http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM.png 782w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM-300x198.png 300w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM-768x507.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px" width="782" height="516"}](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-3.47.06-PM.png) Please let us know if you find are any bugs in this new release, but these new tools aim to make the process of citing data even simpler, reducing the technical barriers, and leaving only cultural ones to overcome. We will not get into the etiquette of when to cite data or papers, but Sarah Callaghan does a fantastic job in her recent blog [covering this topic](http://citingbytes.blogspot.hk/2014/01/cite-what-you-use.html "Citing Bytes on when to cite data"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}. Our rationale is that if that if you feel that data generated in the course of research are just as valuable to the ongoing academic discourse as papers and monographs then it should be treated in the same manner. We would encourage others to [sign the declaration](http://www.force11.org/datacitation/endorsements "Sign the Data Citation declaration"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} and help spread the practice of data citation further. ### **References** [1.](http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/223 "Res Notes paper on Data Citation"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} Edmunds, S., Pollard, T., Hole, B., & Basford, A. (2012). Adventures in data citation: sorghum genome data exemplifies the new gold standard *BMC Research Notes*, **5** (1) DOI: [10.1186/1756-0500-5-223](http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/223 "Res Notes paper on Data Citation"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}\ [2.](http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100076 "Chickpea DOI"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} Varshney,RK et al. (2014): Genomic data of the chickpea (*Cicer arietinum*). GigaScience Database. [http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100076](http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100076 "Chickpea DOI"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}\ [3.](http://www.force11.org/datacitation/ "Force11 Data Citation Principles"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} Force11 Data Citation Principles [http://www.force11.org/datacitation/](http://www.force11.org/datacitation/ "Force11 Data Citation Principles"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} The post [Having a finger on the pulse of data citation](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/having-a-finger-on-the-pulse-of-data-citation/){rel="nofollow"} appeared first on [GigaBlog](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog){rel="nofollow"}.