{"id":4759,"date":"2013-01-10T18:17:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2013-01-10T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:33:52","slug":"citing-software-in-research-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4759","title":{"rendered":"Citing software in research papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R has a <strong>citation()<\/strong> command that recommends how to cite the use of R in your publications, information that is also included in R&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/doc\/FAQ\/R-FAQ.html#Citing-R\">Frequently Asked Questions document<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre>To cite R in publications use:\r\n\r\n  R Core Team (2012). R: A language and environment for\r\n  statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical\r\n  Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL\r\n  http:\/\/www.R-project.org\/.\r\n\r\nA BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is\r\n\r\n  @Manual{,\r\n    title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},\r\n    author = {{R Core Team}},\r\n    organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},\r\n    address = {Vienna, Austria},\r\n    year = {2012},\r\n    note = {{ISBN} 3-900051-07-0},\r\n    url = {http:\/\/www.R-project.org\/},\r\n  }\r\n\r\nWe have invested a lot of time and effort in creating R, please\r\ncite it when using it for data analysis. See also\r\n\u2018citation(\"pkgname\")\u2019 for citing R packages<\/pre>\n<p>This led me to wonder how often people cite the software they use.\u00a0 For example, if you publish the results of a simulation written in MATLAB do you cite MATLAB in any way?\u00a0 How about if you used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originlab.com\/\">Origin<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/excel\/\">Excel<\/a> to produce a curve fit, would you cite that?\u00a0 Would you cite your plotting software, numerical libraries or even compiler?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/software.ac.uk\/\">software sustainability institute (SSI)<\/a>, of which <a href=\"http:\/\/software.ac.uk\/fellowship-programme\/fellow-profiles\">I recently became a fellow<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/software.ac.uk\/so-exactly-what-software-did-you-use\">guidelines on how to cite software<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R has a citation() command that recommends how to cite the use of R in your publications, information that is also included in R&#8217;s Frequently Asked Questions document. To cite R in publications use: R Core Team (2012). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7,36,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-programming","category-r","category-scientific-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1eL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}