BES Guide to Reproducible Code

Welcome

This is the Quarto website for 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.

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!).

About this Guide

This Guide is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Part of the BES Better Science Guides.

British Ecological Society https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org

Editors

Natalie Cooper, Natural History Museum, UK.

Pen-Yuan Hsing, University of Bristol, UK.

Contributors (2025)

Batool Almarzouq, University of Liverpool.

Selina Baldauf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Nilanjan Chatterjee, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany.

Esther Plomp, University of Aruba, Aruba.

Tanya Strydom, University of Sheffield, UK.

Elina Takola, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Germany.

Zuzanna Zagrodzka, University of Sheffield and University of Manchester, UK.

Original contributors (2017)

Mike Croucher, Laura Graham, Tamora James, Anna Krystalli, François Michonneau.

Acknowledgements

This booklet was coordinated by Amelia Macho and Kate Harrison of the British Ecological Society. We thank Edward R. Ivimey-Cook, Antonio J. Pérez-Luque, Luis D. Verde Arregoitia, Nemo Andrea, Carlos Martinez Ortiz, Bryan M Gee. Daniel Padfield, Emma Dunne, Michael D Catchen, Jiangyue Wang, Gbadamassi Gouvide Olawole Dossa for reviewing the second edition of this guide.