How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is a centre of expertise in digital information curation, with a focus on research data management. Among its activities is the publication of How-to Guides that provide working knowledge of curation topics. The guides are aimed at people in research or support posts who are new to managing and curating data.

"How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications" is a title in this series, and this is where it is maintained.

Branching policy

There are two main branches in use:

• master is used for releases. Versions for review and quality assurance are tagged r1, r2, r3 and so on, while published versions are tagged v2, v3, v4 and so on. (The numbers in the two sequences are not intended to correspond.)
• draft is the working branch where the document is revised between releases.

Note that Version 1 (2011-10-18) and Version 2 (2012-06-20) were written using a different system and therefore their history is not recorded in this repository.

Authoring convention

The document is written in the flavour of Markdown used by Pandoc to make it easy to generate alternative formats.

The references are generated from the bibliographic information in the cite-datasets.bib file, which is written in biblatex format.

Compiling the document

Turning the Markdown code into HTML and camera-ready PDF is quite involved, so it is recommended you use the provided Makefile. To use it as it stands you will need the following installed on your system:

• the Make utility
• Perl
• pandoc
• pandoc-citeproc
• a TeX distribution (for PDF output)
• the fonts Charis SIL and DejaVu Mono (for preview PDF output, though you could choose different ones by editing the Makefile)

For a camera-ready PDF such as the DCC publishes, you will also need the class file dcchowto.cls installed to your TeX tree or in your working directory. Currently the only way of getting it is to generate it from the dcchowto DTX file.

To generate both HTML and a camera-ready PDF, simply run this command:

make

For just the HTML:

make html

For just the camera-ready PDF:

make dtp

For a preview PDF:

make pdf

To clean up the auxiliary files:

make clean

To remove all generated files:

make distclean