Maybe "PyGame Development team" would be best.

>From this thread there are some examples of how some projects are cited:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1230811

"""R Development Core Team (2005). R: A language and environment for
statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing,
Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL
http://www.R-project.org<http://www.r-project.org/>.
"""

""" GRASS Development Team (<year>). Geographic Resources Analysis Support
System (GRASS), GNU General Public License. http://grass.osgeo.org """

It's very interesting that there is no standard way to cite FOSS projects.
Or maybe that thread shows the standard way?

Maybe the original author is Mark Baker, the original author of pysdl that
pygame is derived from?  How are derivative works handled?





On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Florian Krause <siebenhundertz...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> I personally would always cite with the original author(s), because
> (at least for APA style) there is no clear rule when it comes to
> citing Open Source software.
> PyGame would then look something like this:
>
> Pete Shinners (2011). PyGame - Python Game Development. Retrieved from
> http://www.pygame.org
>
> Hope this helps,
> Florian
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Ryan Hope <rmh3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I realize its an open source project. However, I can't cite 40+
> > authors nor is there any sort of unifying group which I could cite.
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:30 AM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I don't know of a preferred way, or what is usual for open source
> >> projects...
> >>
> >> That entry looks like it could be fine I guess?
> >>
> >> Does the year have to be the start year, or just the current year?  It
> is
> >> published continuously from the year 2000 until now.
> >>
> >> Also, for Author I see pygame as a community open source project these
> days
> >> with many contributors. At least 30-40 people have made significant
> >> contributions to the source code, and many more to other parts of pygame
> >> (releasing projects, wiki edits, writing tutorials, etc).
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Ryan Hope <rmh3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is there a preferred way to cite PyGame in a journal article? At the
> >>> moment I am using the following BibTex entry but I am not sure how
> >>> correct this is.
> >>>
> >>> @Misc{pygame,
> >>> author = {Pete Shinners},
> >>> title =  {PyGame},
> >>> howpublished = {\url{http://pygame.org/}},
> >>> year = {2011}
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Ryan Hope, M.S.
> >>> CogWorks Lab
> >>> Department of Cognitive Science
> >>> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ryan Hope, M.S.
> > CogWorks Lab
> > Department of Cognitive Science
> > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> >
>
>
>
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