Citation styles

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Citation styles

Closed this issue 9 years ago · 6 comments

Citations in text follow the citation style used. Two practical recommendations (which might already be work for the implementation group) are: a) include version information, and b) include a label to indicate that it is software, e.g. [Software].

Answer 1 · 2016-04-05T15:10:59.000Z

Can you make a specific change suggestion via a pull request?

Answer 2 · 2016-04-05T15:28:34.000Z

will do after the call.

Answer 3 · 2016-04-17T21:03:06.000Z

@mfenner just a reminder of this - if you can do it in the next 24 hours, that would be great!

Answer 4 · 2016-04-18T15:45:09.000Z

@danielskatz will put my suggested text here:

Citations in the scholarly literature are formatted according to the citation style used by that publication (journal, etc.). As these citations are typically sent to publishers not as structured metadata, but as text formatted in that citation style, and because the citation style dictates how the human reader sees the software citation, we recommend that all citation styles supports the following: a) a label indicating that this is software, e.g. [Computer program] and b) support for version information, e..g Version 1.8.7.

Answer 5 · 2016-04-18T15:46:08.000Z

This is consistent with the discussion around data citations. Please rephrase as appropriate.

Answer 6 · 2016-04-18T16:08:54.000Z

addressed by a change in 5 in e9293f4