Citing the Data Portal

If this site and the information contained within it were useful in your work, we would ask you please to mention us when citing your information sources.

The preferred format for citing the Kew Data Portal as a resource is:

"The Kew Data Portal, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet https://www.data.kew.org [accessed on Day Month Year]".
Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.

Individual specimens should be cited as:

https://specimens.kew.org/[COLLECTION]/[BARCODE]. This is a Persistent Identifier, Persistent URL and Stable URI.
For Example: https://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/K000214241
Or : https://specimens.kew.org/fungarium/K-M000519117

Images:

Images created and provided by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. If this image will be used in a publication, we ask that you cite the specimen using the barcode within the text and use one of the copyright captions below.
© The Board of Trustees of the RBG, Kew
© The Board of Trustees - RBG, Kew
© RBG Kew
If you have further questions about how to cite us then please contact us.

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