citations manager links

[audrey karperien-3]

Hello, list. I am making a suggestion; I do hope this is the right place for it.

I would like to be able to download citations to IJ plugins the way we download them from PubMed and journals, through a little link at the top of the page that sends it right to your references manager. I don't know the first thing about implementing such a thing myself, but would help if someone has  the experience to set that up. 
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[ctrueden]

Hi Audrey,

> I would like to be able to download citations to IJ plugins the way we
> download them from PubMed and journals, through a little link at the
> top of the page that sends it right to your references manager.

Good idea.

Perhaps one thing we should do is install the Biblio Mediawiki extension
[1] on the ImageJ wiki, so that all the citations there can simply
reference PMID/etc. I filed an issue for this [2].

However, the general problem of "how to cite plugins" is not trivial. The
traditional approach has been for each plugin to publish in a journal, then
ask that people cite that publication if they use the plugin. E.g., the
Stitching plugin [3] has an article in BioInformatics you are supposed to
cite if you use it. But for plugins with no associated publication, you
have to resort to citing a website; e.g.:

Rueden, C., Schindelin, J., Hiner, M., DeZonia, B., Kamentsky, L. &
Eliceiri, K. (2015). ImageJ2 [Software]. http://imagej.net/.

Which is less than optimal.

Regards,
Curtis

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Biblio
[2] https://github.com/imagej/imagej/issues/111
[3] http://fiji.sc/Stitching

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:17 PM, audrey karperien <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello, list. I am making a suggestion; I do hope this is the right place
> for it.
>
> I would like to be able to download citations to IJ plugins the way we
> download them from PubMed and journals, through a little link at the top of
> the page that sends it right to your references manager. I don't know the
> first thing about implementing such a thing myself, but would help if
> someone has  the experience to set that up.
> -Audrey ...............................................
> A. Karperien
> [hidden email]
>
>
>
> .............................................................................................
> I support open source software.
> Download FracLac Digital Image Analysis Software for Biologists
> free from the National Institutes of Health's ImageJ website.
> "No problem is so big or so
>  complicated that it can't be run away from."
> ...Linus Van Pelt
>
> --
> ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html
>

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