Terry -- For clarification, the format question was not a style question. It was a reference to the one versus many that I wrote in the explainer. Yes... there are many prescribed formats already. That is the easy part.
-Jackie On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 11:33 PM Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 9/9/2018 3:43 PM, Jacqueline Kazil wrote: > > <http:///>The PSF has received a few inquiries asking the question — > > “How do I cite Python?”So, I am reaching out to you all to figure this > out. > > > > (For those that don’t know my background, I have been in academia for a > > bit as a Ph.D student and have worked at the Library of Congress writing > > code to process Marc records <https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/>, > > among other things.) > > > > IMHO the citation for Python should be decided upon by the Python > > developers and should live somewhere on the site. > > > > Two questions to be answered… > > > > 1. What format should it take? > > There are by now formats for citing web documents. I presume style > guides now include such. Try a current version of the Chicago Manual of > Style. (not sure of exact title). I will ask a university professor > who should know more than I. > > > 2. Where does it live on the site? > > On https://bugs.python.org/issue26597, I suggested the Copyright page. > I now think a link to 'Citing these Documents' on > https://docs.python.org/3/ > would be even better. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/jackiekazil%40gmail.com > -- Jacqueline Kazil | @jackiekazil
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