Some journals require an author field, eg http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/ieee.html If the author isn't William Stein then who should it be?
Some examples: 1. GAP uses "The GAP Group" (there is, AFAIK, no formal entity called the GAP Group; it just refers to the list of GAP contributors = developers+maintainers+people answering Support list questions http://www.gap-system.org/Contacts/People/people.html). [GAP2006] The GAP Group, GAP -- Groups, Algorithms, and Programming, Version 4.4.9; 2006. (http://www.gap-system.org) 2. Singular uses the main developers [GPS05] G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, and H. Sch\"onemann. {\sc Singular} 3.0. A Computer Algebra System for Polynomial Computations. Centre for Computer Algebra, University of Kaiserslautern (2005). {\tt http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On 6/26/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/26/07, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the publication list for SAGE (http://sagemath.org/pub.html), it says > > to cite SAGE as: > > > > SAGE Mathematics Software, Version 2.6, http://www.sagemath.org/ > > > > Can we put up an official Bibtex version of this? Is the following > > sufficient? > > Yes, I like that. > > > @misc{sage, > > Title = {{SAGE} Mathematics Software, Version 2.6}, > > Note = {\url{http://www.sagemath.org/}}} > > > > > > > > In the past, it seems that the preferred citation was the following > > paper. Is it not the preferred way of citing SAGE anymore? > > Yes. I used the citation below for a while, since John Cannon once > told me that with MAGMA they always reference the same paper -- > the first to mention MAGMA -- so it has a high citation count. In > retrospect, I think that is stupid -- it's confusing, out of date, > and the URL is wrong. Also, it doesn't make the version of the > software used crystal clear. I think the critical properties that a > citation for SAGE should have are: > (0) a simple clear statement of what SAGE is: "mathematical software" > (1) the URL http://www.sagemath.org, > since I own that and it will always point toward SAGE, wherever > I may go. > (2) the version of SAGE used > (3) what SAGE is, namely software. > (4) I don't require that people list *me* personally -- I think it is much > more important to track down the main parts of SAGE that your work > depends on, and thank the authors of those packages, especially in > the text. > > I was once told by the *author* of bibtex (who I met at a SAGE talk > once) that one should use the note field and \url for referencing > url's, as you do above. > > > I don't like the below anymore, since > > (1) It suggests that SAGE was written by David Joyner and I only. > (2) It suggests the paper is directly at http://www.sagemath.org, which > is false (it's in a subdirectory) > (3) The paper cited is in fact very out of date -- it was written a few > months after SAGE-0.1 (!) > > > By the way, I'm generally phasing out the acronym SAGE = ("Software > for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation") since SAGE is much more > than that now. E.g., the next release of SAGE will include scipy, which > is for serious numerical computation. > > What do people think? It's a good idea to have a clear bibtex reference > that everybody sticks with as soon as possible, and I'm open to suggestions > and feedback regarding the above points. > > -- William > > > @article{sage, > > author = {Stein, William and Joyner, David}, > > title = {{SAGE}: System for Algebra and Geometry > > Experimentation}, > > journal= {Communications in Computer Algebra (SIGSAM Bulletin)}, > > year = {July 2005}, > > note = {{\tt http://www.sagemath.org}.} > > } > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://www.williamstein.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
