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From | Rebecca Pope <rebecca.a.pope@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: how to cite others' code? |
Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:29:01 -0600 |
Hello Statalist-ers, Is there a standard format or set of guidelines for citing code written by others? I am _not_ asking whether one ought to cite pieces of code written by others, but what is required to be in that citation. If a standard does exist, does it differ depending on whether the code comes from Stata Corp, user-written ado files, or was posted as an example to the list? I did try to search for this before posting, but all I found were some posts relating to people not citing others' code. If guidelines are already codified & available, I'm afraid they have been obscured in my search results by this previous discussion. As a concrete example, Svend Juul posted a question a few days ago about generating new variables in a command when a -varlist- is also required. I do something similar in one of my programs, but Nick's response (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-02/msg00861.html) is far more flexible than my solution to the problem. If I were to replace my code with what Nick posted, how would that be correctly cited? Regards, Rebecca * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/