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The Lazarus and Free Pascal teams as well as external contributors have invested a lot of time and effort in creating and maintaining the software. Please cite the tools when using them for scientific purposes.
 
The Lazarus and Free Pascal teams as well as external contributors have invested a lot of time and effort in creating and maintaining the software. Please cite the tools when using them for scientific purposes.
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Citing software that was used for a scientific project is also necessary to make research reproducible. Therefore, correct citations contribute to both credibility and scientific utility of publications.
  
 
The following citing style is the result of a [http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,31319.0.html discussion on the Lazarus forum], which took place over several months in the beginning of 2016.
 
The following citing style is the result of a [http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,31319.0.html discussion on the Lazarus forum], which took place over several months in the beginning of 2016.

Revision as of 23:30, 15 May 2016

The Lazarus and Free Pascal teams as well as external contributors have invested a lot of time and effort in creating and maintaining the software. Please cite the tools when using them for scientific purposes.

Citing software that was used for a scientific project is also necessary to make research reproducible. Therefore, correct citations contribute to both credibility and scientific utility of publications.

The following citing style is the result of a discussion on the Lazarus forum, which took place over several months in the beginning of 2016.

Citing Free Pascal

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

 @Manual{,
   title = {Free Pascal: A 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler},
   author = {{Free Pascal Team}},
   year = {1993-2016},
   address = {Fairfax, VA},
   note = {{version} 3.0},
   note = {{rrid} SCR_014360},
   url = {http://www.freepascal.org},
 }

Citing Lazarus

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

 @Manual{,
   title = {Lazarus: The professional Free Pascal RAD IDE},
   author = {{Lazarus Team}},
   year = {1993-2016},
   address = {Fairfax, VA},
   note = {{version} 1.6},
   note = {{rrid} SCR_014362},
   url = {http://www.lazarus-ide.org},
 }

Citing documentation

Additionally, you might want to cite official and unofficial handbooks and other documentation. See Pascal and Lazarus Books and Magazines for details.

External links

See also