<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"><a href="http:///"></a>The PSF has received a few inquiries asking the question — “How do I cite Python?”So, I am reaching out to you all to figure this out.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">(For those that don’t know my background, I have been in academia for a bit as a Ph.D student and have worked at the Library of Congress writing code to process <a href="https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/">Marc records</a>, among other things.)</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">IMHO the citation for Python should be decided upon by the Python developers and should live somewhere on the site. </p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Two questions to be answered… </p>
<ol style="margin:1.2em 0px;padding-left:2em">
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">What format should it take? </li>
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">Where does it live on the site? </li>
</ol>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">To help frame the first one, I quickly wrote this up — <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R0mo8EYVIPNkmNBImpcZTbk0e78T2oU71ioX5NvVTvY/edit#">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R0mo8EYVIPNkmNBImpcZTbk0e78T2oU71ioX5NvVTvY/edit#</a> </p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">tldr; Summary of possibilities… </p>
<ol style="margin:1.2em 0px;padding-left:2em">
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">Article for one citation (1 DOI, generated by the publication)</li>
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">No article (many DOIs — one for each major version through <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/1404209">Zenodo</a> (or similar service))</li>
</ol>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Discuss.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">-Jackie</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Jackie Kazil<br>Board of Directors, PSF</p>
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