Box 44Joint publication

Two or more organizations may co-publish a database/retrieval system.

  • Use the name of the first organization found on the opening screens (or on "contact us" or other links if no publisher information appears on the opening screens), as the publisher
  • Place the name of the other organization(s) as a note at the end of the citation, if desired
    Example:
    • WormBase: the Biology and Genome of C. elegans [Internet]. Release WS170. [Pasadena (CA)]: California Institute of Technology. c1999 -   [updated 2007 Jan 19; cited 2007 Feb 1]. Available from: http://www.wormbase.org/. Jointly published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Washington University at St. Louis, and The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
  • Do not give more than one name as publisher

From: Chapter 24, Databases/Retrieval Systems/Datasets on the Internet

Cover of Citing Medicine
Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition.
Patrias K, author; Wendling D, editor.
Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007-.
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