Please note that, as of January 1, 2023, UNAVCO, Inc. is now EarthScope Consortium. UNAVCO, Inc may be used for historic references, but current citations should use EarthScope Consortium

A minimal citation for a dataset contains the following elements (all obtainable through the GAGE DOI search interface):

Author(s), Publication Year, Title, EarthScope Consortium, DOI.

The recommended full citation includes the following elements:

Author(s), Publication Year, Title, EarthScope Consortium, Washington, CO, dataset type, DOI, date accessed, subset used.

For datasets archived at the GAGE Facility, we set the author names to be the Principal Investigator and any Co-investigator(s) in our database. In some systems, the term "Data Creator" is used. This term is synonymous with Author in our terminology.

(Note that the citation will also need to conform to the formatting requirements of the journal.)

Example - Historic Citation of a Campaign

Miller, M. Meghan, 2001, Baja California 1996, UNAVCO Inc., Boulder, CO, GPS Campaign Data Set,
https://doi.org/10.7283/T5MW2F2D, accessed 1 Aug 2013.

Example - Historic Citation of a Permanent/Continuous Station

Bendick, Rebecca, 2012,  Southwest Montana GPS  Network, BSPC – Big Sheep  Creek P.S.,
UNAVCO Inc., Boulder, CO, GPS Continuous Station Data Set, https://doi.org/10.7283/T54M92GS,
accessed 25 Jun 2013, time-windowed subset 2011-09-09 through 2011-11-30.