On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, stephen sefick wrote:
Hi all:
I have had recent issues with citing a package(s) in journals. I have a
package that has been cited as the Documentation and accepted into
journals, but I just had a problem with the lme4 package. We are citing the
submitted paper instead of the documentation. In other words, the citation
from the citation function was not acceptable to the editor.
Experiences? Thoughts for a solution? Are there standard ways of doing
this?
This still keeps coming up from time to time. By now, many editors have
accepted that a software+manual published on a web page can be something
that is worth citing - others still don't allow it. But hopefully this
resistance will die out eventually.
The standard workaround is, of course, to cite a journal paper or book
about the software. This was always one of the most important objectives
of JSS: to give software authors something that is considered citable.
And hopefully there will be a JSS paper on lme4 in the not-so-distant
future.
Maybe the R Foundation could publish a manual of which all package
documentation is a sub-publication kind of like an edited book?
Well CRAN already hosts a web page with a standard URL where the manual is
posted. So this is considered to be a credible source for many by now and
it's probably not worth the effort anymore to set up such an artificial
documentation series with ISSN etc.
I just am trying to make sure that everyone that makes the R ecosystem so
useful gets attribution for their work.
Yes, keep up trying and hopefully sooner than later citing the software
directly (rather than a paper about it) will be accepted by almost all
editors.
Best,
Z
Many thanks to everyone involved.
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