How to refere

• Flora Croatica Database citation: Nikolić T. ed. (year of using): Flora Croatica Database (URL http://hirc.botanic.hr/fcd). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.

• To refere on FCD concepts and organisation:

• User manual citation: Nikolić T. (2007): Manual for Flora Croatica Database web interface. Ver. 2.0, january 2007. (http://hirc.botanic.hr/fcd/html/Hr)-FC-kako.html). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, 1-118. (Download pdf file (6,9 Mb) croatian language only)

Information(s) stored in FCD (Flora Croatica Database) are intended only for usage in non-commercial purposes (i.e. science, education). Power up the FCD data as an item in commercial offers (i.e. environmental studies, elaborates) is not allowed. Every data stored in FCD have author(s). Use of any data commit user to respect authorization and to cite author(s) correctly.

Authors are:

1. author(s) of published reference which are used as an data source for FCD
2. collector(s) of herbarium specimen which label or/and photo is stored in FCD
3. author(s) of field list stored in  FCD
4. database editor

A/ Distribution map generated by FCD MapSurfer contain numerous data from the different sources (literature, collections, field observations). In the case of map usage in scientific, expert or other papers and/or other presentations, it is necessarily to quote all sources (i.e. full literature citation, herbarium samples, etc.) used for map production on usual way. The data available only in FCD, i.e. not published elsewere, should be quoted for example:

• Horvatinčić R. (2002): Contribution to the incidence of taxon ____________ (latin name of taxon with name author(s)). - field observation. In: Flora Croatica database, ______ (year of FCD usage). On-Line (http://hirc.botanic.hr/fcd). Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. 

B/ Check list of some area generated by FCD facilities contain numerous data from the different sources (literature, collections, field observations). In the case of such check list usage in scientific, expert or other papers or/and other presentations, it is necessarily to quote all sources (i.e. full literature citation, herbarium samples, etc.) used for check list production on usual way. The data available only in FCD, i.e. not published elsewere (mostly field obseravtions), should be quoted for example:

• Horvatinčić R. (2004): Contribution to the flora of _____________ (area demarcation, name of locality, MTB field code or similar) - field observation. In: Flora Croatica database, ______ (year of FCD usage). On-Line (http://hirc.botanic.hr/fcd). Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.

C/ For general usage of FCD facilities and results (synonyms, lists of endemic plants, threatened plants, floristic lists analysis, localities geocoding, etc.) for any kind of papers and/or presentations, as well as in previous cases (A, B) database should be quoted as an editorial work:

• Nikolić T. ed. (______): Flora Croatica Database, On-Line (http://hirc.botanic.hr/fcd). Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.
  (year of citation is year of database usage)

Note: the user could check the accuracy od used data, original sources pointed in FCD (i.e. literature, herbarium specimen), and intervene in case of contingent correction of wrongly given quotation.

Causion: the database editor(s) and collaborators do not bear responsibility for any kind of  wrong data interpretations, typo errors and mistakes in original sources, as well as for any kind of related consequences.

Maintain: T. Nikolić. Last changes 29.01.2007.In collaboration with CARNet.