Software citation principles
Software is a critical part of modern research and yet there is little support across the scholarly ecosystem for its acknowledgement and citation. Inspired by the activities of the FORCE11 working group focused on data citation, this document summarizes the recommendations of the FORCE11 Software C...
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| author | Arfon M. Smith Daniel S. Katz Kyle E. Niemeyer FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group |
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| description | Software is a critical part of modern research and yet there is little support across the scholarly ecosystem for its acknowledgement and citation. Inspired by the activities of the FORCE11 working group focused on data citation, this document summarizes the recommendations of the FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group and its activities between June 2015 and April 2016. Based on a review of existing community practices, the goal of the working group was to produce a consolidated set of citation principles that may encourage broad adoption of a consistent policy for software citation across disciplines and venues. Our work is presented here as a set of software citation principles, a discussion of the motivations for developing the principles, reviews of existing community practice, and a discussion of the requirements these principles would place upon different stakeholders. Working examples and possible technical solutions for how these principles can be implemented will be discussed in a separate paper. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5016b156ab344319bf2d20d285b7afe2022-12-21T18:29:21ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ Computer Science2376-59922016-09-012e8610.7717/peerj-cs.86Software citation principlesArfon M. Smith0Daniel S. Katz1Kyle E. Niemeyer2FORCE11 Software Citation Working GroupGitHub, Inc., San Francisco, California, United StatesNational Center for Supercomputing Applications & Electrical and Computer Engineering Department & School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United StatesSchool of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United StatesSoftware is a critical part of modern research and yet there is little support across the scholarly ecosystem for its acknowledgement and citation. Inspired by the activities of the FORCE11 working group focused on data citation, this document summarizes the recommendations of the FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group and its activities between June 2015 and April 2016. Based on a review of existing community practices, the goal of the working group was to produce a consolidated set of citation principles that may encourage broad adoption of a consistent policy for software citation across disciplines and venues. Our work is presented here as a set of software citation principles, a discussion of the motivations for developing the principles, reviews of existing community practice, and a discussion of the requirements these principles would place upon different stakeholders. Working examples and possible technical solutions for how these principles can be implemented will be discussed in a separate paper.https://peerj.com/articles/cs-86.pdfSoftware citationSoftware creditAttribution |
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