Academic citation for Python

[Dave Cole]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au> writes:

Tim> Ross Lazarus wrote:
>>  How should the Python language be cited in an academic
>> publication?
>> 
>> For example, in
>> http://bioinformatics.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/8/756.pdf the
>> author mentions http://www.python.org in the text rather than
>> formally citing the primary source - or is that the appropriate
>> primary source and recommended attribution?
>> 
>> I found "Copyright 1991-1995 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum,
>> Amsterdam, The Netherlands" at
>> http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html, but that doesn't seem as
>> complete or helpful as I'd like for a refereed journal.

Tim> I cited Python thus:

Tim> [16] G. van Rossum and F.L. Drake (eds), Python Reference Manual,
Tim> PythonLabs, Virginia, USA, 2001. Available at
Tim> http://www.python.org

Tim> and Numerical Python thus:

Tim> [17] D. Ascher, P.F. Dubois, K. Hinsen, J. Hugunin and
Tim> T. Oliphant, Numerical Python, Lawrence Livermore National
Tim> Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA, 2001. Available at
Tim> http://www.pfdubois.com/numpy/

Tim> in a paper which will appear shortly in Computer Methods and
Tim> Programs in Biomedicine, and the editors seemed satisfied.

I can't wait!

- Dave

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