Very cool idea. Having a tool that could build citations based on what functionality you used in your paper would be interesting. The only issues is where to draw the line on significant contributions and how far back in the tree you go. Linus and Dennis Ritchie may have get the most citations if we're not careful.
Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Matthew Rocklin <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason's answer is probably the one to go with practically speaking. > > Philosophically speaking though, module specific citations might be > interesting. Presumably these could be auto-generated. Maybe we could > hack up a little 'cite' function that returns bibtex for any module by > inspecting the git logs and returning all authors with a non-trivial > quantity of commits. > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you'd like to cite SymPy then use: >> https://github.com/sympy/sympy#citation, but if you want to cite an >> article that explains the algorithm in nsolve, you'll need to dig deeper. >> >> >> Jason >> moorepants.info >> +01 530-601-9791 >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Steffi L <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am using the module nsolve of the SymPy package and want to refer to >>> it in a scientific article. Is there any convention how to cite it? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Stef >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "sympy" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/903fb269-6bb1-4d6f-9ac5-42747445d57f%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/903fb269-6bb1-4d6f-9ac5-42747445d57f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1Aiu%2BBrapxSY2mkgpnjh9VoVLDSDAEji6YTHZo3%3Dzwsw9g%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1Aiu%2BBrapxSY2mkgpnjh9VoVLDSDAEji6YTHZo3%3Dzwsw9g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAJ8oX-ELnM-Voqn%2B5g6S6fLNB_uLDdXxWvdswGf-n_s7DUGtUQ%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAJ8oX-ELnM-Voqn%2B5g6S6fLNB_uLDdXxWvdswGf-n_s7DUGtUQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1Aibhi9bXo3tzKNYNEn9B0zKoacbYpwrJ6uoYhkGDmuFfg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
