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e-Citation
Suggested e-Citation format
Data citation should include these key components:
PI name, title of dataset, data version date, database name and publisher,
date accessed/retrieved by you, URL of dataset
Please consider using this format:
PI name(s). "Data set title." Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data System.
BCO DMO, WHOI. iPub: 'data version'. Accessed: 'date you accessed the data'. http://bcodata.whoi.edu/jg/serv/'data_object_name'.html0
Example e-Citation
Buesseler, K. "VERTIGO RR_K2 Cruise Event Log." Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data System.
BCO DMO, WHOI. iPub: 27 January 2006. Accessed: 14 February 2006. http://bcodata.whoi.edu/jg/serv/OCB/VERTIGO/RR_K2/log.html0
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