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astrofrog / acknowledgment-generator

Easily generate acknowledgment sections for papers
http://astrofrog.github.io/acknowledgment-generator/
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Support citation vs. acknowledgment #11

Open aaccomazzi opened 10 years ago

aaccomazzi commented 10 years ago

A similar setup could be used to properly cite many of the projects/software/facilities listed here, as each of them is described in one or more papers which could be formally added to the reference list. So one idea worth considering is to provide a toggle which allows the user to choose between acknowledgment and formal citation. Either way, the proper cut-n-paste code would be generated.

pkgw commented 4 years ago

OK, this issue is old and I'm hijacking it a bit, but ... while the UI now supports emitting BibTeX citations, I feel like there are still things to think about along these lines. Namely, I worry that the name of this project might be a bit limiting.

In particular, I love the idea of pushing it to be a one-stop shop for software citation, but the "acknowledgment" in the name kind of pushes against that. What do folks think?

maxbeegee commented 3 years ago

Again, this is a pretty old issue - but I agree. There is quite a movement for more attribution of software in the sciences and being "just" an "acknowledgment generator" does actually not represent the great functionality of this great tool.