Software citation principles

PeerJ Computer Science

Volumn 2016, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Smith, Arfon M ^a   Katz, Daniel S ^b   Niemeyer, Kyle E ^c  

^a GitHub   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Software citation; Software credit

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS;

ATTRIBUTION; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS; WORKING GROUPS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 85015569138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23765992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.86     Document Type: Article

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