Academic citation: what changed
Revision 0 to 1. Removed lines have a minus sign; added lines have a plus sign.
Title: Academic citation
| Old | New | Line | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | + | 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. | |
| 2 | + | ||
| 3 | + | 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. | |
| 4 | + | ||
| 5 | + | The following citation style is the result of a [discussion on the Lazarus forum](http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,31319.0.html), which took place over several months in 2016 and 2017. | |
| 6 | + | ||
| 7 | + | ## Citing Free Pascal | |
| 8 | + | ||
| 9 | + | - 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](https://scicrunch.org/browse/resources/SCR_014360). | |
| 10 | + | ||
| 11 | + | A BibTeX entry for $`\LaTeX`$ users is | |
| 12 | + | ||
| 13 | + | ``` bibtex | |
| 14 | + | @Manual{, | |
| 15 | + | title = {Free Pascal: A 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler}, | |
| 16 | + | author = , | |
| 17 | + | year = {1993-2022}, | |
| 18 | + | address = {Fairfax, VA}, | |
| 19 | + | note = {{version} 3.2.2}, | |
| 20 | + | note = {{rrid} SCR_014360}, | |
| 21 | + | url = {https://www.freepascal.org/}, | |
| 22 | + | } | |
| 23 | + | ``` | |
| 24 | + | ||
| 25 | + | Of course, the version in the foregoing examples should be replaced by the version of the Free Pascal compiler that was used. | |
| 26 | + | ||
| 27 | + | ## Citing Lazarus | |
| 28 | + | ||
| 29 | + | - Lazarus Team (1993-2022). Lazarus: The professional Free Pascal RAD IDE. Version 2.2.4. URL <http://www.lazarus-ide.org>. RRID:[SCR_014362](https://scicrunch.org/browse/resources/SCR_014362). | |
| 30 | + | ||
| 31 | + | A BibTeX entry for $`\LaTeX`$ users is | |
| 32 | + | ||
| 33 | + | ``` bibtex | |
| 34 | + | @Manual{, | |
| 35 | + | title = {Lazarus: The professional Free Pascal RAD IDE}, | |
| 36 | + | author = , | |
| 37 | + | year = {1993-2022}, | |
| 38 | + | address = {Fairfax, VA}, | |
| 39 | + | note = {{version} 2.2.4}, | |
| 40 | + | note = {{rrid} SCR_014362}, | |
| 41 | + | url = {https://www.lazarus-ide.org}, | |
| 42 | + | } | |
| 43 | + | ``` | |
| 44 | + | ||
| 45 | + | Please don't forget to replace the Lazarus version in the examples from above with the version that was used for your scientific project. | |
| 46 | + | ||
| 47 | + | ## Citing documentation | |
| 48 | + | ||
| 49 | + | Additionally, you might want to cite official and unofficial handbooks and other documentation. See [[Pascal and Lazarus Books and Magazines]] for details. | |
| 50 | + | ||
| 51 | + | ## External links | |
| 52 | + | ||
| 53 | + | - [Free Pascal Documentation](https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html) | |
| 54 | + | - Software Sustainability Institute: [How to cite and describe software](https://www.software.ac.uk/how-cite-and-describe-software) | |
| 55 | + | ||
| 56 | + | ## See also | |
| 57 | + | ||
| 58 | + | - [[Pascal and Lazarus Books and Magazines]] | |
| 59 | + | - [[Scientific publications]] | |
| 60 | + | - [[Lazarus Documentation]] | |
| 61 | + | ||
| 62 | + | --- | |
| 63 | + | *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](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 64 | + | Category: SciTech |