Cite various python packages in paper [closed]

Question

We have a working tool built off of various packages in python. I am not sure how to cite these packages for a paper I am working on. How do I properly cite python packages? One of them have a way they ask us to cite them via a book. Most say nothing on citations that I can find. Is there a standard?

Protero

How to cite a webpage – Gathering

I’m voting to close this question because it is not about programming but about professional writing. – Mendez

Answer 1

This link has the preferred citation method for scipy and its related packages. If you aren't using one of these packages you could follow the style they use.

https://scipy.org/citing-scipy/

Blindage

The corrected link is: scipy.org/citing-scipy – Flem

Answer 2

It is the same as for every software. Search for reference preferred by authors on the Internet. Else try to find a manual. If there is no manual, cite it directly as "software" or cite webpage with documentation.

A lot of preferred citations for Python packages are at the citebay.com, for example:

Numpy: http://citebay.com/how-to-cite/numpy/

Pandas: http://citebay.com/how-to-cite/pandas/

Aeriela

Answer 3

For people coming across this in the future, the citepy library may solve some problems. It won't pick up the "preferred" citations for the vanishingly small proportion of libraries which have them, but it provides a convenient way of generating CSL-compatible citation metadata for either specific libraries, or everything in your virtual environment.

It dumps out CSL-data JSON, which can then be converted into basically anything by tools like citation-js.

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