On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:48:39 -0500 Steve McIntyre wrote: > Dear Achim, Thanks for the comment. Here is the publisher's style > guideline(AGU) > "Because the Internet is dynamic environment and sites may change or > move, treat World Wide Web, ftp files, and electronically archived > data stored at data centers other than World or National Data Centers > as unpublished, i.e., in text only." > http://www.agu.org/pubs/AuthorRefSheet.pdf
My understanding of this is that you cannot refer to files (especially documents and data files) in the references. A software package is neither. So maybe you should just remove the URL? For proprietary software packages, you don't have a URL from which you can download it, but nevertheless you should cite the software you used in an article. In short: The text above does not provide a guideline on how to cite software (afaics), and thus it does not apply to citing R or R packages. my EUR 0.02 Z > So by this policy, R and its packages cannot be included in the list > of references and has the same citation as a pers.comm. The problem > for my paper can be resolved by removing the citation from references > to text, but this seems unfair to R and the package authors for AGU > publications. AGU does recognize some permanent data archives listed > here http://www.agu.org/pubs/datacent.html - maybe it would make sense > to have a mirror at one of these permanent archives for packages and > versions. > > Regards, Steve McIntyre > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Achim Zeileis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Steve McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 5:06 PM > Subject: Re: [R] R Citation > > > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:42:41 -0500 Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > > I've cited R in an article accepted by a journal using the > > > following reference: > > > > > > >R Development Core Team (2004), R: A language and environment for > > > >statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, > > > >Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-00-3, <http://www.Rproject.org>. > > ^^^^^ ^^^^ > > > > The ISBN is 3-900051-07-0 and the URL http://www.R-project.org/. > > > > > I received the following query about my citation. > > > > > > > 7. For R Development Core Team [2004], you provided both an > > > > ISBN and a > > > > Web site address. If this is a book, please provide the name > > > > and location of the publisher. If you do not have print > > > > publication information, the Web site will be cited in text > > > > only, and the reference will be removed from the reference list. > > > > > > I'd appreciate advice on this. I had a similar query about a > > > similar citation of an R package. > > > > Well, both R and the package are software and no books, so print > > publication information cannot be available. You could either argue > > that you want to cite software and that the information is complete, > > or (if the publisher of the journal would not accept that) argue > > that both are manuals which you want to cite (for which the > > publisher should have a citation style). > > One would hope that the latter is not necessary as a publisher > > should always allow a possibility to properly cite software used in > > a scientific article... > > > > hth, > > Z > > > > > Thanks, Steve McIntyre > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
