Citation rules

Correctly referencing the use of data from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) is important for the research community and for demonstrating the scientific value of such a large-scale study.

Additionally, we ask that all publications using FReDA data include the following acknowledgement:

Refer to the study and the data version (currently release 3.0.0) by including the following (or a similar) phrase in your text:

This study uses FReDA panel data from the release v.3.0.0 (DOI: 10.4232/1.14080 | 10.4232/1.14065 | 10.4232/1.13745), Bujard et al. (2023). A detailed study description can be found in Schneider et al. (2021).

Add the respective bibliographic details to your list of references:

Bujard, M., Gummer, T., Hank, K., Neyer, F. J., Pollak, R., Schneider, N. F., Spieß, C. K., Wolf, C., Bauer, I., Börlin, S., Bretschi, D., Brüggemann, K., Christmann, P., Edinger, R., 7 Eigenbrodt, F., Frembs, L. C., Groß, K., Jost, C., Kunz, T., Lines, E., Lück, D., Naderi, R., Naumann, E., Nutz, T., Oehrlein, A.-S., Oellers, V., Ruckdeschel, K., Schmid, L., Schumann, A., Schumann, N., Stein, A., Thönnissen, C., Ullrich, E., von den Driesch, E., Weih, U. (2023). FReDA – The German Family Demography Panel Study (GESIS, Köln. Study No. ZA7777; Data File Version 3.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14080).

Schneider, N. F., Bujard, M., Wolf, C., Gummer, T., Hank, K., & Neyer, F. J. (2021). Family Research and Demographic Analysis (FReDA): Evolution, Framework, Objectives, and Design of “The German Family Demography Panel Study”. Comparative Population Studies, 46. https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2021-06