As far as I know, we don't have a recommendation for how to cite
Maxima, though it's certainly a good idea.
I see that the R project recommends citing as follows:
R Development Core Team (2005). R: A language and environment for
statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing,
Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R-project.org.
But this presupposes a number of things we don't have: a formal name
for the development group, a formal organization, and an ISBN. So
your suggestion looks fine to me.
Though of course Schelter had an important part in keeping Macsyma
[sic] alive and getting it released under the GPL, if we were to
mention individual names, we'd have to mention many too many,
including Carl Engelman, William A. Martin, Joel Moses, Richard
Fateman, et al.
-s
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Leo Butler <l.butler at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> What is the appropriate way to cite maxima in an academic context?
> Is
>
> The Maxima Group. Maxima, a Computer Algebra System. Version 5.18.1
> (2009). http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
>
> satisfactory? This mimics GAP's stated preference.
>
> On the other hand, maxima at start-up and in its documentation makes
> special reference to Schelter.
>
> I have looked at a number of documents and have not found a satisfactory
> answer.
>
> Leo
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