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Re: How to properly cite Debian in an academic work?



Le Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit :
> Hi Joenio,
> 
> I think scientific citations refer to texts / books / articles, not to software
> collections?  So The Debian Operating System we ship is not a publication which
> could be cited?

Nowadays it is customary to cite software. It is even required in an
increasing number of settings, in particular reproducible science.
Debian publishes a software distribution, which can certainly be cited.

It is not quite relevant to Debian, but when asking for a grant, 
your software having citations really helps, whether it is 10, 100
or 1000.

I would just write

[1] Debian GNU/Linux, version 12.7, the Debian project, https://www.debian.org

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.


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