Hi Terri, For repository owners, they can generate citable DOIs through zenodo and through OSF. OSF is nice because it has a lovely project metadata page and can point to gihub as a datasource.
See: Ballsun-Stanton, B., Ross, S. A., Sobotkova, A., Crook, P., & Janouchova, P. (2018, November 26). Field Acquired Information Management Systems Project. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/C6M4U However, if you're not the owner of the code, it seems to be incredibly rude to create a permanent reference to the code other than what the authors want. Some authors have specific citation requests in their readmes, i.e. https://github.com/neologd/mecab-ipadic-neologd#Bibtex If you're citing the code, make sure you cite a release or commit, because otherwise folks will be targeting a different version than yours (i.e. we made a specific tag for our SoftwareX release: https://github.com/FAIMS/faims-web/releases -- obviously only the maintainer can make the release, but anyone can cite a commit. This is also the opportunity to mint a zenodo DOI if that's the direction you want to go in. So, like all citation questions it's a question of who your end consumers will be. If it's a journal, this is a "ask the editor" question, unfortunately. Otherwise, the details will depend on rights and plan-of-use. I hope this was of some little help, -Brian ________________________________ From: Terri Yu <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 8 April 2019 1:58 PM To: discuss Subject: [discuss] Best way to cite GitHub repository? Hi all, I found this GitHub Guide about producing a DOI for a GitHub repo through Zenodo. https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1GP-CMwGj8C6mPAwiwlxOs?domain=guides.github.com> Is that the recommended way to cite open source software that is under development on GitHub? Thanks for your help, Terri The Carpentries<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4-UdCP7L1Nf5VgkjujSPu1?domain=carpentries.topicbox.com> / discuss / see discussions<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5-4KCQnM1WfNZVy2srLO4q?domain=carpentries.topicbox.com> + participants<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LGW5CRONg6sgZYzMFoXEih?domain=carpentries.topicbox.com> + delivery options<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/uq5oCOMK7Yc2QYy7TkGs1h?domain=carpentries.topicbox.com> Permalink<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/7IF2CNLJxkiMyLGOu4guqy?domain=carpentries.topicbox.com> ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T33d60669d32ac1d7-M51d4b4cf4058307313d69b8a Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
