How to cite Julia in publications?

Internals & Design
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What is the proper citation for Julia itself? julialang.org? Or one of the foundational articles?

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I think that https://julialang.org/research/julia-fresh-approach-BEKS.pdf is a good one to cite.

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Okay. How about if I wanted to direct the reader to the actual programming language? How does this look to you?
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Oh man, the link from your paper to the SIAM website is already broken. How ephemeral the URLs are!

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Interestingly, that link (on my browser/PDF viewer) points to http://www.siam.org/journals/s rather than http://www.siam.org/journals/sirev/59-1/100067.html. I wonder if this is a mistake in the original LaTeX to PDF conversion…

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Or, would you prefer I credit BEKS instead of “the Julia development team”?

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The preferred citation and bibtex entry is as follows. Citing this greatly helps with funding agencies as the Julia Lab writes grant proposals etc.

@article{bezanson2017julia,
  title={Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing},
  author={Bezanson, Jeff and Edelman, Alan and Karpinski, Stefan and Shah, Viral B},
  journal={SIAM review},
  volume={59},
  number={1},
  pages={65--98},
  year={2017},
  publisher={SIAM},
  url={https://doi.org/10.1137/141000671}
}

In addition, if you want to point the readers to download Julia, you can link the URL to https://julialang.org and credit it to “The Julia Project”.

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And how should we cite Julia’s packages?
For example MixedModels.jl?

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Relevant proposal

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There should be a CITATION.bib in the top package folder. Otherwise search the documentation. If there is no paper to cite, cite it with URL.

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Some packages use Zenodo for this. It’s been added recently to GLM, so you could file an issue to enable it for MixedModels too.

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Link is broken.

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@viralbshah since you deleted the file.

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The PDF is available at Research, together with the link to article published in the journal

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I deleted my message to avoid the broken link. Unfortunately that experiment did not pan out - but google scholar and everyone gives you the standard citation bib. So, shouldn’t be a problem.

-viral