It seems to me that the simple solution (for R, not the packages) is to 
remove the URL from the citation.  To answer the journal's query, the 
publisher of the book is the R Foundation for Statistical Computing, 
located in Vienna.  That the book is not available at Amazon makes it no 
less a book in today's world.  It has an ISBN -- what more can one ask?  
Schlagsahne?

MHP


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data centers other than World or National Data Centers as unpublished, i.e.,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
>
>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" <Achim.Zeileis@wu-wien.ac.at>
>To: "Steve McIntyre" <stephen.mcintyre@utoronto.ca>
>Cc: <R-help@r-project.org>
>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
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