ICOS SE Data Citation and Acknowledgement

You should always cite and acknowledge ICOS Sweden (ICOS SE) data and funding in your publications and on your posters if:

• You used data from one of the ICOS SE stations (Abisko-Stordalen, Degerö, Svartberget, Norunda, Mycklemossen, Hyltemossa, Östergarnsholm, Tavastland), even as part of a larger data release.
• You conducted research at on of the ICOS SE stations.

Following the ICOS data citation agreement, ICOS SE data should be cited in three places of your research paper: data citations, references, and acknowledgements. Additionally, for ICOS SE, you should acknowledge the ICOS SE funding in the acknowledgments and/or funding section of the journal. 

In the data citations section

Use the following text and complete with the information from the data product you used (follow the citation example as given for the downloaded product on the Carbon Portal websites).

[Name of the data category used] were downloaded from the ICOS Carbon portal, DOI: [DOI number] ([Name of the data providers] et al., [Year])

Examples:

Half-hourly Level 2 eddy covariance fluxes for Hyltemossa were downloaded from the ICOS Carbon portal (Heliasz et al. 2024, https://hdl.handle.net/11676/oIx9r8XnkV-a-rN9Gr-4Brf3)

ICOS Atmosphere Level 2 CO2 data from Svartberget were downloaded from the ICOS Carbon portal (Larmanou et al. 2024, https://hdl.handle.net/11676/1aRTeoVFyZBEmw1zcvNWY_5Z)

In the references section

When using a dataset from an ICOS SE station, use the citation from the landing page of the dataset you downloaded.

Examples:

Heliasz, M., Kljun, N., Biermann, T., Holst, J., Holst, T., Linderson, M., Mölder, M., Rinne, J. (2024). ETC L2 Fluxes, Hyltemossa, 2017-12-31–2024-08-31, ICOS RI, https://hdl.handle.net/11676/oIx9r8XnkV-a-rN9Gr-4Brf3

Larmanou, E., Marklund, P., Ottosson-Löfvenius, M., Smith, P. (2024). ICOS ATC CO2 Release, Svartberget (85.0 m), 2017-06-01–2024-03-31, ICOS RI, https://hdl.handle.net/11676/1aRTeoVFyZBEmw1zcvNWY_5Z

When using ICOS SE data as part of a larger dataset including several ICOS stations, use the DOI number of the entire data release and list stations that contributed to the release in the acknowledgements section. Additionally, acknowledge funding for the ICOS SE stations in the acknowledgements or funding section (see below).

In the funding and/or acknowledgments sections

Always use grant numbers exactly as they are written below. In case you analyse/publish ICOS SE data now that were collected during an earlier ICOS project phase, acknowledge both project phases.

To acknowledge ICOS SE in general (for the whole project time) in a publication or on a poster, use the following wording either in the funding or the acknowledgement sections:

ICOS SE has been funded by the Swedish Research Council (SRC) and the consortium partners since 2010.

To acknowledge ICOS SE from a specific project phase, use the following wording either in the funding or the acknowledgement sections:

General example:

We acknowledge ICOS SE Phase 4 (Swedish Research Council, grant 2019-00244).

Station specific example:

CO₂ observations at Hyltemossa were funded by ICOS SE (Swedish Research Council, grants 2015-06020, 2019-00205, 2023-00172).

Specific rules:

Abisko-Stordalen: 

If using data from Abisko-Stordalen, please, acknowledge additionally the Abisko Scientific Research station (ANS).

Lund University Researchers: LUCRIS

Lund University has its own research portal where publications are collected. Most Publications end up in LUCRIS more or less automatically. However, we would like to encourage you, to manually link related publications to the infrastructures at LU (ICOS Sweden, ICOS Carbon Portal, ACTRIS Sweden, etc... ).

Both, data citation and the link in LUCRIS help us, to show that the RIs are actually being used which is important for their future financial support.