# Form of citation for data via Wolfram Mathematica

What citation or reference should I adhere to if I'm using curated data obtained via Mathematica? I'm talking about data, or eg. plots thereof, obtained using functions such as SatelliteData, PlanetData, etc.

I am aware that for:

But this doesn't specifically cover the blindspot described above.

I'm interested in using the data, or calculations and visualizations made from the data, for two types of communication:

• Use in presentations for education (eg. a plot of some orbit, a table of planet masses)
• use in research aimed at published journals
• For the former AstronomicalData[], there was this list of references; now that it's been split up into smaller curated data functions, I'm not sure. I think it's still best to just use data from actually citable sources, and if they happen to agree with what Mathematica spits out, then note that observation. – J. M. will be back soon Aug 23 '15 at 15:16
• It would be desirable to have an answer from somebody at WRI! – murray Aug 24 '15 at 0:11
• Thanks @J.M. For publication or serious computation, using actual citable sources does appear to be the only way at the moment. However, it seems to negate the whole point of "curated" data if you can't be certain of its provenance. If I knew that I could just cite "Wolfram Research" or "Wolfram|Alpha", that would already be a step forward, certainly for presentations / education. – TransferOrbit Aug 26 '15 at 6:46
• I see "curated data" at the moment as a convenient way to try out any computations you have with "real world data" without having to go through the trouble of searching for sources. But, as soon as you're no longer doing "toy computations" I think it behooves the researcher to actually have to do the legwork for reliable data sources. – J. M. will be back soon Aug 26 '15 at 6:49

PlanetData["Earth", "Radius"]