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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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7-## Citing Free Pascal
7+## Contents
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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).
9+ * 1 Citing Free Pascal
10+ * 2 Citing Lazarus
11+ * 3 Citing documentation
12+ * 4 External links
13+ * 5 See also
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11-A BibTeX entry for $`\LaTeX`$ users is
15+## Citing Free Pascal
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13-``` bibtex
17+ * 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>).
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19+A BibTeX entry for [math]\displaystyle{ \LaTeX }[/math] users is
20+```
1421@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-}
22+ title = {Free Pascal: A 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler},
23+ author = {{Free Pascal Team}},
24+ year = {1993-2022},
25+ address = {Fairfax, VA},
26+ note = {{version} 3.2.2},
27+ note = {{rrid} SCR_014360},
28+ url = {https://www.freepascal.org/},
29+ }
2330```
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25-Of course, the version in the foregoing examples should be replaced by the version of the Free Pascal compiler that was used.
32+Of course, the version in the foregoing examples should be replaced by the version of the Free Pascal compiler that was used.
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2734## Citing Lazarus
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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).
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31-A BibTeX entry for $`\LaTeX`$ users is
36+ * 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>).
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33-``` bibtex
38+A BibTeX entry for [math]\displaystyle{ \LaTeX }[/math] users is
39+```
3440@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-}
41+ title = {Lazarus: The professional Free Pascal RAD IDE},
42+ author = {{Lazarus Team}},
43+ year = {1993-2022},
44+ address = {Fairfax, VA},
45+ note = {{version} 2.2.4},
46+ note = {{rrid} SCR_014362},
47+ url = {https://www.lazarus-ide.org},
48+ }
4349```
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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.
51+Please don't forget to replace the Lazarus version in the examples from above with the version that was used for your scientific project.
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4753## Citing documentation
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49-Additionally, you might want to cite official and unofficial handbooks and other documentation. See [[Pascal and Lazarus Books and Magazines]] for details.
55+Additionally, you might want to cite official and unofficial handbooks and other documentation. See [[Pascal and Lazarus Books and Magazines]] for details.
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5157## External links
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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)
59+ * [Free Pascal Documentation](<https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html>)
60+ * Software Sustainability Institute: [How to cite and describe software](<https://www.software.ac.uk/how-cite-and-describe-software>)
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5662## See also
5763
58-- [[Pascal and Lazarus Books and Magazines]]
59-- [[Scientific publications]]
60-- [[Lazarus Documentation]]
64+ * [[Pascal and Lazarus Books and Magazines]]
65+ * [[Scientific publications]]
66+ * [[Lazarus Documentation]]
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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
69+*From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Academic citation", as the Internet Archive kept it on 2024-09-07. 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).*

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