
Pierre-Alain Leboucher and Dorian Ratovo. "World Press Freedom Index 2014," Reporters Without Borders, data visualisation by Pierre-Alain Leboucher and Dorian Ratovo, accessed August 25, 2014. įor a complete description of citation guidelines refer to The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (2017)įor original material on webpages that are not (part of) formally published documents, The Chicago Manual of Style recommends including as many of the following citation components as possible: title author site's owner or sponsor date of publication, revision, or modification, otherwise the access date and URL.

* IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology), Special Interest Group on Data Citation, Quick Guide to Data Citation (2012), webpage. Distributed by Harvard Election Data Archive. Stephen Ansolabehere, Maxwell Palmer, and Amanda Lee, Precinct-Level Election Data, V1 (January 20, 2014), distributed by Harvard Election Data Archive, UNF:5:5C9UfGjdLy2ONVPtgr45qA=.Īnsolabehere, Stephen, Maxwell Palmer, and Amanda Lee. These elements can be combined as in the examples below, Chicago-style.

Append the date retrieved if the title and locator are not specific to the exact instance of the data you used."* "Electronic Location or Identifier: Web address or unique, persistent, global identifier used to locate the dataset (such as a DOI)."Publisher and/or Distributor: Organizational entity that makes the dataset available by archiving, producing, publishing, and/or distributing the dataset."*."Date of Publication: Year the dataset was published or disseminated."*."Title: Complete title of the dataset, including the edition or version number, if applicable."*."Author: Name(s) of each individual or organizational entity responsible for the creation of the dataset."*.

For a complete description of citation guidelines refer to The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (2017).ĭatasets are not discussed in The Chicago Manual of Style.Īccording to IASSIST*, the essential components of a citation to a dataset are the following:*
