The 2014 statement produced by Force11's Data Citation Synthesis Group, signed by a wide community of publishers, funders, repositories, and infrastructure providers, that articulates eight principles for the citation of research data in scholarly communication.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A journal publisher endorsing the Declaration and updating its instructions to authors accordingly.
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A funder citing the Declaration in its data-citation guidance.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

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A unilateral statement by one publisher is not the Joint Declaration.
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ISO standards for citation formatting are not the Joint Declaration.

Editorial commentary

The Declaration was the culmination of work by the Force11 Data Citation Synthesis Group, which synthesised earlier statements from the National Academies (2012), DataCite, the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation, and others. Its eight principles became the de facto reference for data-citation policy in the years that followed and were operationalised in subsequent work (the FAIR Principles, journal data-citation requirements, repository landing-page best practice).

References

Data Citation Synthesis Group, 'Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles', Force11, 2014 (force11.org/datacitationprinciples).

Also known as

Force11 Data Citation Declaration

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

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      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/joint-declaration-data-citation-principles" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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  "sameAs": [
    "Force11 Data Citation Declaration"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:06:21",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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