How should I cite this library?

[krofik]

How should I cite this library in a scientific publication? Is there any preferred way to do so, or may the author prefer to reference some conference talk? Having an bibtex entry in README.md would be nice.

[mpusz]

Hi, thanks for your interest in the library. I must admit that I do not know much about BibTeX entries but I always thought they do not apply to the software. In case I am wrong please let me know what is the correct way to do it.

Anyway, the library is referred to by the name mp-units as stated in its documentation here: https://mpusz.github.io/units/index.html. I am the primary library author but there are also a lot of great contributors here so I think it wouldn't be fair to state only my name in BibTeX or another kind of entry.

[i-ky]

GitHub seems to support citation files for repositories. This makes citation information in BibTeX and other formats.

See also this and this.

[mpusz]

@krofik, I added the CITATION.cff file today and now you can find the information on the main project's page:

It wasn't that easy for me to create such a file but I hope we ended up with a fair solution.

Please let me know in case we can somehow improve here.

[mpusz]

@krofik, does this address your concerns so we can close this issue?

[mpusz]

I am closing this as it seems to be resolved.