Copy and paste citation tools exist for traditional academic publication types from places like Citation Machine or Google Scholar, but similar plugins for datasets are scarce. In response, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City built a data citation template for all acquired proprietary data sources and selected open data sources to allow economists to copy and paste data citations into their preferred word processing program.

Keywords: Data Citation

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TB 18-04, November 2018

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Butler, Courtney R. 2018. “Creating Data Citation Templates for Economics.” Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Technical Briefing no. 18-04, November. Available at External Linkhttps://doi.org/10.18651/TB/TB1804

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Courtney R. Butler

Data Management Strategist

Courtney R. Butler leads the Data Management Program as part of the Data Utility Office (DUO) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. She holds a Master of Arts in Organizat…

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