Content citation

The draft Terms of Use (iMB5) and the Community Best Practices refer to citation mechanisms to ensure proper acknowledgement of all published content. The proposal for the Business Metadata is indeed envisaged also to allow automatic generation of citations.

Here follows examples of citation templates which could be adopted within the iMarine web infrastructure.

FAO Data

http://data.fao.org/ provides the following citation standards:

• FAO style
• APA (6th ed.)
• Chicago (Author-Date, 15th ed.)
• Harvard (18th ed.)
• MLA (7th ed.)

with download facilities as "EndNote" and "Export as Mendeley".

Example based on FAO style: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FISHSTAT. Global Capture Production (Dataset). (Latest update: 10 Jan 2014) Accessed (23 Jun 2014). URI: http://data.fao.org/ref/af556541-1c8e-4e98-8510-1b2cafba5935.html?version=1.0

ASFA

The Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) is following the Anglo-American Cataloguing rules AACR2 http://www.aacr2.org

Resources

• EA-CoP Data Access and Sharing Policies
• Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice: iMarine Guidelines and Best Practices