Re: [jats-list] Software citations

[Bruce Rosenblum <bruce@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alf,

My general recommendation if you're marking up references other than 
"standard" journal or book references is to use mixed-citation, not 
element-citation, because it's better suited to handle situations 
like the one you've described, especially when you may need to handle 
information for which there aren't optimal elements within 
element-citation like version or OS.

Bruce

At 07:53 AM 3/13/2014, Alf Eaton wrote:
> Does anyone have any examples of software citations marked up with
> <element-citation>? I've been looking around the JATS document for
> citations[1], and can't find any mention of software (though there are
> examples for "web", "online" and "database" citations).
>
> In particular, I'm looking to mark up a citation of this software:
> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/sparky/
>
> Ideally, it would be possible to use the URL plus their recommended
> citation string:
>
> T. D. Goddard and D. G. Kneller, SPARKY 3,
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> and additionally mark up the version and operating system of the
> software that was used.
>
> As there aren't fields in <element-citation> for a version number or
> an operating system, do people just use the standard citation fields
> and then rely on versions, OS, etc being described in the methods
> section?
>
> Also of relevance is Mozilla Science Lab's "Code as a research object"
> project[2], which encourages authors to archive versioned releases of
> their software, and provide DOIs of those archives for others to cite.
>
> Thanks,
> Alf
>
>
> [1] http://jatspan.org/niso/publishing-1.1d1/#p=tagging-references
> [2] http://mozillascience.org/code-as-a-research-object-a-new-project/

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