topic Re: How to cite something from the Living Atlas in ArcGIS Living Atlas Questions

How to cite something from the Living Atlas

TonyDiaz1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:15:43 GMT

Hi all, please help me, I can't figure out how to cite this from the Living Atlas:

Do I cite just Koppen? Do I cite the data? Do I cite Beck?

Koppen-Geiger Climate Classification

Data were download from https://www.gloh2o.org/koppen/ [gloh2o.org]

The full details are described by Beck et al 2023.

Beck, H. E., T. R. McVicar, N. Vergopolan, A. Berg, N. J. Lutsko, A. Dufour, Z. Zeng, X. Jiang, A. I. J. M. van Dijk, and D. G. Miralles. High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901–2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections. Scientific Data 10, 724 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02549-6 [doi.org]

Re: How to cite something from the Living Atlas

Ed_ — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:52:00 GMT

That's a good question, usually with programming libraries, the authors or package owners mention an example as how to cite their stuff maybe ESRI can also do the same.

Re: How to cite something from the Living Atlas

JimHerries — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:57:11 GMT

You can cite items you find in ArcGIS Living Atlas in exactly the same way you would cite items you find in ArcGIS Online: look at the item page for citation text to use, or a link to such information.

Every item in ArcGIS Living Atlas is an item in ArcGIS Online and therefore has its own ArcGIS Online item page. I presume you are looking at this item: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=1e468410784c4b9a81f43af7f0f9b133

If you scroll down on the item page, you often will find citation information in the Description, or a link to citation information in the Terms of Use. The Credits (Attribution) is sometimes used by publishers to give a short, simple citation, but occasionally publishers put a long citation in there. You can also leave a comment for the item owner to ask for any particular citation information if you do not see one.

I suppose it depends on your citation requirements. In this particular example, you have a pretty clear preferred citation indicated in the Description section, so that is a solid option.