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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Wes.<div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>"""</div><div><div>Python</div><div><br></div><div>Guido van Rossum: Scripting the Web with Python. In "Scripting Languages: Automating the Web", World Wide Web Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 1997, O'Reilly.</div><div><br></div><div>Aaron Watters, Guido van Rossum, James C. Ahlstrom: Internet Programming with Python. MIS Press/Henry Holt publishers, New York, 1996.</div><div><br></div><div>Guido van Rossum: Python Library Reference. May 1995. CWI Report CS-R9524.</div><div><br></div><div>Guido van Rossum: Python Reference Manual. May 1995. CWI Report CS-R9525.</div><div><br></div><div>Guido van Rossum: Python Tutorial. May 1995. CWI Report CS-R9526.</div><div><br></div><div>Guido van Rossum: Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter. May 1995. CWI Report CS-R9527.</div><div><br></div><div>Guido van Rossum, Jelke de Boer: Linking a Stub Generator (AIL) to a Prototyping Language (Python). Spring 1991 EurOpen Conference Proceedings (May 20-24, 1991) Tromso, Norway.</div></div><div>"""</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of these, I think the Python Reference Manual is the only one that comes close as a general citation for the langue itself. And it would be a particular version, presumably. But those old versions are published as tech reports by a know institution -- easier to cite than teh PSF.</div><div><br></div><div>I've seen folks cite various academic articles to satisfy a citation for a language or library, but often that is simply because that is the one thing they could find that is citable in the standard way.</div><div><br></div><div>sure -- though I don't think "article" is the correct catagory -- probbaly technical report.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at the current "official" docs, the copyright is held by the PSF, but I see no author mentioned (I recall it said Fred Drake many years back...) I take that back -- the PDF version has an author.</div><div><br></div>So I'm thinking maybe:<br><br><font face="monospace, monospace">@techreport{techreport,<br> author    = {</font><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Guido van Rossum </span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">and the Python development team</span><font face="monospace, monospace">}, <br> title     = {Python Language Reference, release 3.7.0},<br> institution  = {Python Software Foundation},<br> year     = 2018,<br> address    = {</font><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">9450 SW Gemini Dr. </span><font face="monospace, monospace"></font><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">ECM# 90772, </span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Beaverton, OR 97008 </span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">USA</span><font face="monospace, monospace">},<br> number    = 3.7,</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="monospace, monospace"> url .    = {<a href="https://docs.python.org/release/3.7.0/">https://docs.python.org/release/3.7.0/</a>},<br>}</font><div><br></div><div>I used "Guido van Rossum and the Python development team" as the Author, as that's what it says on the PDF version. Not sure how bibliography software will deal with that...</div><div><br></div><div>And what do we do with version? part of the title, or (ab)use number (Or volume, or ....)</div><div><br></div><div>And it would be better to cite the entire standard docs, rather than just the language reference, but I"m not sure what to call it -- there is no single document with a title.</div><div><br></div><div>And a DOI for each release would be nice.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R       (206) 526-6959  voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE   (206) 526-6329  fax<br>Seattle, WA  98115     (206) 526-6317  main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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