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Published December 6, 2025 | Version v2.0
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Guide to Reproducible Code

  • 1. Natural History Museum, United Kingdom
  • 2. University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  • 3. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • 4. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • 5. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany
  • 6. University of Aruba, Aruba
  • 7. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • 8. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Germany
  • 9. University of Sheffield and University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Description

This is the Quarto version of the 2nd edition of British Ecological Society's "Guide to Reproducible Code". A print version of this guide has also been published as a PDF file on Zenodo.

The rendered website is here:

https://bes-guide.github.io/reproducible-code/

Assuming you already know the basics of programming (such as in the languages R or Python), this guide will show you how to publish the code you write so that it is reprodicible and FAIR for others (and your future self!).

Editors: @nhcooper123, @penyuan

Authors: @batoolmm, @selinaZitrone, @nilanjanchatterjee, @estherplomp, @tanyas08, @ETakola, @zuzannazagrodzka

Notes

If you use this software, please cite it using the metadata from this file. Note that Natalie Cooper and Pen-Yuan Hsing are the editors of this guide but are listed along with the authors because of limitations to the CITATION.cff format. The publisher of this guide is the British Ecological Society.

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