How to cite OBIS
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through the OBIS Portal, I agree that, in any publication or presentation of
any sort based wholly or in part on material so accessed, I will:
1. Acknowledge the
use of specific records from contributing databases in the form appearing in
the 'Citation' field thereof (if any); and acknowledge the use of the OBIS facility
in one of the following prescribed forms:
For OBIS website:
Ocean Biogeographic Information
System. [date accessed] www.iobis.org
For data used:
Author, initials. Database title. Retrieved [date
accessed] from www.iobis.org
Examples:
(a) Single level
Stocks, K. SeamountsOnline: an online information system for seamount biology.
Version 3.1. Retrieved [date] from www.iobis.org.
(b) multiple level (for example, to
cite a database published on a Compact Disc and accessed through OBIS)
Picton, B.E., Emblow, C.S.,
Morrow, C.C., Sides, E.M., Tierney, P., McGrath, D., McGeough, G., McCrea, M.,
Dinneen, P., Falvey, J., Dempsey, S., Dowse, J. and Costello, M. J. 1999.
Marine sites, habitats and species data collected during the BioMar survey of
Ireland. In: Picton, B.E. and Costello M. J. (eds), The BioMar biotope viewer: a guide to marine habitats, fauna and flora
in Britain and Ireland, Environmental Sciences Unit, Trinity College,
Dublin. Retrieved [date] from www.iobis.org.
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the full citation of any publication I make (printed or electronic) that cites
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