The FORCE11 Data Citation Principles
To enhance the proliferation of high quality research data, contribute towards according research data due significance in the research process and encourage good practice, FORCE11 issued overarching principles for data citation. The principles work on the premise that data citations need to be both human and machine-readable. They are not comprehensive, but are rather meant to encourage communities to develop practices and tools that embody them.
The principles are: importance of data citations; data citations to facilitate credit and attribution; data citations to provide evidence for claims; data citation to include machine actionable and globally unique persistent identifier; data citations to facilitate access to the data themselves. In addition, data citations should be: persistent; facilitate identification of, access to, and verification of the specific data that support a claim; be interoperable and flexible.
Source: https://www.force11.org/datacitation