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Citation format for Octave


From: rik
Subject: Citation format for Octave
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 16:03:01 -0700

5/11/15

John, Carnë, and anyone else who regularly writes academic papers,

What should the citation() function return for Octave 4.0?  The current
text of the file is:

-- CITATION --
To cite GNU Octave in publications use:

  John W. Eaton, David Bateman, Søren Hauberg, Rik Wehbring (2014).
  GNU Octave version 3.8.1 manual: a high-level interactive language for
  numerical computations.
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.  ISBN 1441413006,
  URL http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is:

  @book{,
    author    = {John W. Eaton, David Bateman, S\oren Hauberg, and Rik
Wehbring},
    title     = {{GNU Octave} version 3.8.1 manual: a high-level
interactive language for numerical computations},
    publisher = {CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform},
    year      = {2014},
    note      = {{ISBN} 1441413006},
    url       = {http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter},
  }

We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating GNU Octave, please
cite it
when using it.  See also `citation pkgname' for citing Octave packages.

-- End CITATION --

This is clearly not right, but just changing the version to 4.0.0 isn't
going to make the ISBN number correct.  Should we drop the publisher and
note fields entirely?

--Rik




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