On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 04:00:57AM +0000, Charles Johnson wrote: > Hello. Making a short presentation of PSPP I was on the problem of how to > cite correctly PSPP. > > Using the APA 6th edition format, I did the following: > > "Free Software Foundation (2015). GNU PSPP (Version 0.8.5) [Computer > Software]. Boston, MA" > or > "GNU Project (2015). GNU PSPP (Version 0.8.5) [Computer Software]. Free > Software Foundation. Boston, MA" > > In both you can be added: "Available from: https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/";
Of those two, the latter citation seems more appropriate to me, because PSPP is directly part of the GNU Project (not the Free Software Foundation). > I have reviewed the following thread: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2011-11/msg00017.html, > But really I'm not clear as I do. > > In other software: > > For example, IBM recommends for SPSS: > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21476197 > > In "R", using the following command "citation ()" recommended: R Core Team > (2015). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation > for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org/. > > In GNU Octave "citation" command (cite a manual): John W. Eaton, David > Bateman, Søren Hauberg, Rik Wehbring (2015). GNU Octave version 4.0.0 manual: > a high-level interactive language for numerical computations. URL > http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/ > > Depending on the project, citing the author of a manual, or the software > itself. Any ideas? I think that you should consider whether what you're citing is text from a manual or use of a program. Citing the manual is more straightforward, though, since it has a clear title and list of authors. _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
