Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

[Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Manuel Prinz <debian@pinguinkiste.de> writes:

> 
> Sure. So, to summarize, we have the following options:
> 
>      1. The references are added to the long description
>      2. The references are added to Packages via a new X-* field
>      3. The references are added to debian/copyright
>      4. The references are supplied in a file under ./debian and
>         installed in a common location (via debhelper or other methods)
>              1. in an already widely-used bibliographic format
>              2. in a RFC822 format that is converted to other formats on
>                 installation
> 
> To me, only 4) is an option, and I prefer to go the 4.1 route. 


For making the citations available to be cited, I tend to agree. 

MPQC[1] http://www.mpqc.org/pub.php says:

  "We request that publications using results produced by MPQC cite it
   as described by the CITATION file in the MPQC distribution. These
   generally have the form: "

It then goes on to list the appropriate citation. 

I do like the approach of having a simple plain text file - while not
machine readable does make it clear the appropriate citation - (and in
this case the request that "modified by author, institution, location,
year be added if appropriate").
 
Supplying the information in a widely used bibliographic format _as
well_ would be nice - and make it easier to pull out for the tasks web
pages.

To answer a question from somewhere else in the thread, I don't know
if it is standard, but Phys Rev Letters includes a doi field[1] in
bibtex format citations.

Chris

[1] The latest PRL cover article is doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.158102} 
for example.