Which of the following is an accurate statement concerning the use of report templates

Guidance for authors and editors

Data availability statements provide a statement about where data supporting the results reported in a published article can be found - including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study.

How to write an excellent data availability statement: read these tips from Tristan Matthews, Assistant Research Data Editor at Springer Nature.

About Data Availability Statements

The Springer Nature research data policy types 2, 3 and 4 encourage or require the provision of data availability statements. Some research funders, such as the Research Councils UK, require data availability statements to be included in publications and the Springer Nature research data policies support compliance with these requirements. Publicly available datasets referred to in data availability statements can also be cited in reference lists – and this is particularly encouraged when datasets have digital object identifiers (DOIs). Data availability statements commonly take one of the following forms:

1. The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS].
2. The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
3. All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article (and its supplementary information files).
4. The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due to [REASON(S) WHY DATA ARE NOT PUBLIC] but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
5. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
6. The data that support the findings of this study are available from [THIRD PARTY NAME] but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of [THIRD PARTY NAME].

Further example and template data availability statements

In the absence of specific instructions from a journal editor authors can use or adapt the statement(s) above, and in the table below, that is most appropriate for their manuscript. Several statements may need to be combined depending on the nature of the research. The table below provides links to articles in the stated journal(s) that have used or adapted the statement.

Authors should, in the first instance, contact journal editors for advice on preparing specific manuscripts, and the Springer Nature Research Data Helpdesk for general advice on research data policies.

Browse examples

More examples of data availability statements are available on the University of Bath Research Data Archive.