[Bioperl-l] Citing CPAN modules in scientific publications

[Kevin Brown]

Wouldn't the format of the citation actually be dictated by the
publication the paper was going to be in? E.g. the APA guide sets the
format to be:

Jones, D. F. (2002). The Mental Measurement Tester (Version 3.2)
[Computer software].
  	Fort Lauderdale, FL: Nova Southeastern University. Retrieved
July 22, 2007.
  	Available from http://www.buros.com/


Kevin Brown
Center for Innovations in Medicine
Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University  

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bioperl-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Christopher Bottoms
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:12 AM
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> Subject: [Bioperl-l] Citing CPAN modules in scientific publications
> 
> Dear BioPerlers,
> 
> I am working on a publication which would be impossible 
> without the use of
> several CPAN modules. I appreciate the work authors and 
> maintainers have put
> into these modules and would like to acknowledge them by 
> citing their work.
> 
> I was thinking of a format such as
> Author(s), Maintainer(s) *Module::Name* [
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Name]
> 
> 
> A reference for File::Slurp would appear thus:
> 
> Uri Guttman, Dave Rolsky *File::Slurp* [
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Slurp]
> 
> 
> I guess that I could instead mention authors in an 
> acknowledgment section. I
> noticed a large acknowledgment section in the BioPerl paper (
> http://genome.cshlp.org/content/12/10/1611.full).
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Christopher Bottoms (molecules)
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