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Please review the guidelines for submission templates below. These data templates are meant to facilitate and standardize data reporting, following the best practices identified by the CZ community. Before you submit your data to the EarthChem Library, please ensure that you have the relevant method and sample information, as outlined above.

In addition, ensure that your submission is in compliance with ECL's Submission Guidelines and Policies to ensure the most efficient curation process.

The CZ Hub Team provides a coordinated view of all CZNet data/research products submitted to a reputable data repository via cataloging and data discovery functionality. To accomplish this, we ask that you do the following, regardless of which repository you deposit your data in:

1. Tag your dataset/product with a subject keyword of “CZNet”
2.  If appropriate, tag your dataset/product with a subject keyword pertaining to your Collaboration Theme.
3. Ensure that you enter funding agency information, including Funder (National Science Foundation), award number, and, if possible, award title.
4. Make sure that your dataset is publicly available by leaving the release date blank. We will not be able to discover and catalog your datasets/products until you have made them publicly available.

We will be using this information to find and catalog resources submitted to the different repositories. If it is missing, we may not be able to find your submitted resource and include it in the CZNet metadata index and discovery tools. 

NOTE: The Data Submission Portal requires this information for all submitted datasets. However, we know that some may choose to submit directly to a repository without using the Data Submission Portal, so it is important to specify this information regardless of how or when you submit your data.

We strongly recommend creating formal linkages between the datasets you have deposited within the above mentioned repositories and any manuscripts that you submit for publication that use or are based on the data. This ensures that anyone who discovers the paper can link to and access the data used and anyone who discovers the data can link to and access publications that have used the data.

After depositing your datasets within one of the above repositories we recommend formally citing the data within any research manuscripts based on the data that you submit for publication. Recommendations in the Author Guide for the journal to which you submit may determine how datasets are cited in the text of the paper. In the absence of specific instructions from the journal, we recommend citing data within the text of the paper using the journal’s citation style (e.g., Author(s), Year) and including a full bibliographic citation to the dataset within the references section of the paper.

Once a paper has been accepted for publication and a digital object identifier (DOI) or citation has been issued for the the paper, you should modify the metadata for the dataset in the repository to include a link to the paper as a “related resource.”