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Software citation principles

Author(s) -

Arfon M. Smith,

Daniel S. Katz,

Kyle E. Niemeyer

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

peerj computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.806

H-Index - 24

ISSN - 2376-5992

DOI - 10.7717/peerj-cs.86

Subject(s) - citation , acknowledgement , computer science , software , software peer review , set (abstract data type) , working group , work (physics) , data science , knowledge management , software development , software engineering , world wide web , software construction , engineering , mechanical engineering , computer security , programming language , operating system

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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