Academic citation

The Lazarus and Free Pascal teams as well as external contributors have invested a lot of time and effort in creating and maintaining the software. Please cite the tools when using them for scientific purposes.

Citing software that was used for a scientific project is also necessary to make research reproducible. Therefore, correct citations contribute to both credibility and scientific utility of publications.

The following citation style is the result of a discussion on the Lazarus forum, which took place over several months in 2016 and 2017.

Citing Free Pascal

• Free Pascal Team (1993-2022). Free Pascal: A 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler. Version 3.2.2. URL https://www.freepascal.org. RRID:SCR_014360.

A BibTeX entry for $\LaTeX$ users is

@Manual{,
    title   = {Free Pascal: A 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler},
    author  = ,
    year    = {1993-2022},
    address = {Fairfax, VA},
    note    = {{version} 3.2.2},
    note    = {{rrid} SCR_014360},
    url     = {https://www.freepascal.org/},
}

Of course, the version in the foregoing examples should be replaced by the version of the Free Pascal compiler that was used.

Citing Lazarus

• Lazarus Team (1993-2022). Lazarus: The professional Free Pascal RAD IDE. Version 2.2.4. URL http://www.lazarus-ide.org. RRID:SCR_014362.

A BibTeX entry for $\LaTeX$ users is

@Manual{,
    title   = {Lazarus: The professional Free Pascal RAD IDE},
    author  = ,
    year    = {1993-2022},
    address = {Fairfax, VA},
    note    = {{version} 2.2.4},
    note    = {{rrid} SCR_014362},
    url     = {https://www.lazarus-ide.org},
}

Please don't forget to replace the Lazarus version in the examples from above with the version that was used for your scientific project.

Citing documentation

Additionally, you might want to cite official and unofficial handbooks and other documentation. See Pascal and Lazarus Books and Magazines for details.

External links

• Free Pascal Documentation
• Software Sustainability Institute: How to cite and describe software

See also

• Pascal and Lazarus Books and Magazines
• Scientific publications
• Lazarus Documentation

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Academic citation", as it stood on 2022-10-30 after a change by Jwdietrich, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.