Re: citations manager links

Posted by ctrueden on Feb 04, 2015; 8:23pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/citations-manager-links-tp5011391p5011448.html

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.
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