[IPython-dev] How to cite the IPython notebook?

Wes Turner wes.turner at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 16:31:42 EDT 2014


https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ mentions that you can
create a DOI for a GitHub project with Zenodo:

*
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2014/03/tool-developed-cern-makes-software-citation-easier
* https://zenodo.org/account/settings/github/

You can also create a DOI for a GitHub project with FigShare:

* http://figshare.com/faqs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Jason Grout <jason-sage at creativetrax.com>
wrote:

> On 10/29/14, 7:46, Matthias Bussonnier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 29 oct. 2014 à 12:39, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net> a
> écrit :
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I am looking for a citable reference for the IPython notebook. All I
> >> could find on ipython.org is a 2007 paper describing IPython, but that
> >> was before the notebook. The context of my citation is tools for
> >> reproducible research, so ideally I'd like to cite a paper that
> >> actually describes the notebook and the design decisions behind it.
> >
> > There are no citation post notebook from US, we are working on it.
> > Can it wait a bit ?
>
> Doesn't github allow generating DOIs from software releases?  Perhaps
> that would be a good way to cite IPython and a version number:
>
> https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>
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