Re: Citing PSPP

[Jason Stover]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:10:19AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 06:26:55PM -0400, David Sean wrote:
> >> What is the preferred way to cite the use of PSPP in scientific articles?
> >
> > It looks like no one has responded, so here is my best attempt:
> >
> > There is no standard way to cite PSPP that I know of, but PSPP is part
> > of the GNU project, so you could give a reference like
> >
> > B. Pfaff, J. Darrington et. al. GNU PSPP. http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
> 
> I think that David mentioned in IRC that citations of webpages
> weren't really looked on well in his journal.
> 
> Jason, I think that you have made some kind of conference
> presentation about PSPP, right?  Maybe a poster or something like
> that?  (Maybe I'm thinking of another one of my projects, I have
> too many of them.)  Maybe a reference to something like that
> would be better for David's purpose.

The citation for the poster is:

J. Stover. GNU PSPP: A Free Clone of SPSS. Joint Statistical
Meetings. Vancouver. 2010.

I'm not sure about the format citations of poster presentations. I can
supply more information if necessary.