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Is there any style or guidelines for citing code (e.g. as we have APA for citing papers)? Usually when I want to give credit to a software or code that I have

by alceufc 12y ago

Is there any style or guidelines for citing code (e.g. as we have APA for citing papers)? Usually when I want to give credit to a software or code that I have used I cite the paper that describes the that software or code. Another point: if you attribute a DOI to your code, that could result in it "stealing" the citations from a paper that describe that code.

mandalar12 12y ago
Your latest point can be resolved through explicitly asking authors to cite the paper rather than linking to the website/github repo. For instance I used Intel Pintools and they specify in their FAQ[1] : I used Pin for my latest paper. What citation should I include? [actual paper here] [1]: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pintool-faq https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pintool-faq
gone35 12y ago
Yes; plenty of them [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. [1] http://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/7797/what-is-the-proper-format-style-for-using-and-properly-citing-code-in-an-apa-pap http://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/7797/what-is-the-... [2] http://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code http://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code [3] http://software.ac.uk/so-exactly-what-software-did-you-use http://software.ac.uk/so-exactly-what-software-did-you-use [4] http://uark.libguides.com/content.php?pid=155080&sid=1780817 http://uark.libguides.com/content.php?pid=155080&sid=1780817 [5] https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ [6] https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/25/ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/25/ [7] And many, many more at: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=citing+source+code http://lmgtfy.com/?q=citing+source+code. I apologize for the snark, but it is a not-too-abstruse and rather common question that is very easy to figure out online without any special or prior expertise; and so I think contributes very little to the discussion.

by alceufc 12y ago

mandalar12 12y ago

Your latest point can be resolved through explicitly asking authors to cite the paper rather than linking to the website/github repo. For instance I used Intel Pintools and they specify in their FAQ[1] : I used Pin for my latest paper. What citation should I include? [actual paper here] [1]: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pintool-faq https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pintool-faq

gone35 12y ago

Yes; plenty of them [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. [1] http://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/7797/what-is-the-proper-format-style-for-using-and-properly-citing-code-in-an-apa-pap http://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/7797/what-is-the-... [2] http://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code http://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code [3] http://software.ac.uk/so-exactly-what-software-did-you-use http://software.ac.uk/so-exactly-what-software-did-you-use [4] http://uark.libguides.com/content.php?pid=155080&sid=1780817 http://uark.libguides.com/content.php?pid=155080&sid=1780817 [5] https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ [6] https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/25/ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/25/ [7] And many, many more at: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=citing+source+code http://lmgtfy.com/?q=citing+source+code. I apologize for the snark, but it is a not-too-abstruse and rather common question that is very easy to figure out online without any special or prior expertise; and so I think contributes very little to the discussion.