Published December 8, 2025 | Version v2.0.1
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Guide to Reproducible Code

Authors/Creators

  • 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 reproducible and FAIR for others (and your future self!).

Editors: @nhcooper123, @penyuan

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

Changelog:

  • Minor edits and typo fixes.

Notes

If you use this guide, please cite it using the metadata from `CITATION.cff`. 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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