[Python-Dev] Official citation for Python (original) (raw)

Jacqueline Kazil jackiekazil at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 23:39:40 EDT 2018

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 <tjreedy at 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

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