[LTER-im] Publisher location requested for data set DOI

[Wade Sheldon]

Hi folks,

A GCE PI encountered the following issue when citing a data set in an ESA journal submission using the recommended LTER Data Portal citation format. Has anyone experienced this before? Publisher location seems irrelevant for a digital asset and defeats the purpose of a DOI, so my inclination is to push back and ask the publisher to justify this request. I suspect it's just about filling in a field in their citation system.

Any recommendations?

Wade Sheldon
GCE-LTER



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Subject: 	how to cite GCE data sets
Date: 	Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:46:36 -0600
From: 	Pennings, Steven C <scpennin at Central.UH.EDU>
To: 	'Wade Sheldon' <sheldon at uga.edu>



Hi Wade,
I cited a GCE data set as recommended

Li, S. 2016. Experimental wrack disturbance at four

times during the growing season. Georgia Coastal

Ecosystems LTER Project, Long Term Ecological

Research Network, University of Houston, ?????.

https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/0efb520e3772f0b97b560

325853ebf32

And the journal asked for "publisher location" where the question marks are located. Should this be "Athens, Georgia, USA"?

Also, if this becomes a common request (in this case from a journal of the Ecological Society of America") then I wonder if it would make sense to change our standard citation format that we provide.

Steve

Steve Pennings
John and Rebecca Moores Professor
Department of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Houston TX 77204
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