[Bioperl-l] Citing CPAN modules in scientific publications

[Christopher Bottoms]

Thanks.

I was also wondering about listing the maintainer. I'm guessing not, since
the maintainer can add herself (or himself) to the list of authors if she
felt that she had contributed enough to warrant it.


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Kevin Brown <Kevin.M.Brown at asu.edu> wrote:

> 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-----
> > From: bioperl-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org
> > [mailto:bioperl-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of
> > Christopher Bottoms
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:12 AM
> > To: bioperl-l List
> > 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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