5. Citing Data

Wiley endorses the FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles [23], a set of guiding principles for data within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other research object. We recommend the format for data citation proposed in this Joint Declaration, and that data held within institutional, subject-focused, or more general data repositories should be cited. At the same time, we do not intend to replace community standards such as in-line citation of GenBank accession codes, instead we hope to supplement those with formal data citations. This is one way to begin to enable researchers who share data to be recognized in the same way that researchers are recognized when they collect citations to their research articles. Data citation like this is not new to Wiley policies. But the emphasis on data citation within the new Wiley data sharing policies is new and is in-line with industry standards and initiatives to recognize data as a primary research object.