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Suggestion for new CIF data item

Status: Under review

Some on-line publications and documents do not have DOI (for example, preprints at the arXiv), therefore I suggest adding a data item for URLs as the most general way to refer to on-line publications, documents and posts.

Contributed by Andrius Merkys on 28 Feb 2018

 

_citation_url

Definition:

 The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the cited work.

Example:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5146v4

Category: citation

 

Any other attributes suggested by the submitter are listed here:

_type char

International Tables for Crystallography

Volume G: Definition and exchange of crystallographic data

First online edition (2006)

Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon

An essential guide and reference to CIF for programmers, data managers handling crystal-structure information and practising crystallographers.