Re: [Jabref-users] Citing Jabref

[Peters Gj (PSYCHOLOGY) <gj....@ma...>]

Dear Frédéric, Rainer, et al.,

Thank you for your reactions!

I think that providing some guidelines of the JabRef website would be wise indeed. For example, Frédéric rightfully remarks that references are usually of the format Authors (year). Title. Container, volume etc. However, the APA 6th edition doesn't agree. On page 211, in example 56, resource type 'software', they say

Application Name (Version #) [Computer software]. City, state: Company.

I could of course apply the 'manual trick' and not cite the program itself, but rather the manual - this is apparently what is the convention? At least that's the solution R and GRASS chose. So I'll just go ahead and propose:

  @Manual{JabRef_software,
    title = {JabRef},
    author = {{JabRef Development Team}},
    organization = {JabRef Development Team},
    year = {2010},
    url = {http://jabref.sourceforge.org},
  }

Thank you for your help, kind regards,

Gjalt-Jorn
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Gjalt-Jorn Peters
Work & Social Psychology, faculty of Psychology & Neuroscience,
Maastricht University