[R] R Citation

[Achim Zeileis]

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
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