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Re: [pygame] Citing PyGame in papers



Im guessing from the comments that this is the first time this has
ever come up but I suggest as a community we come up with and official
bibtex entry like the R folks have

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Miriam English <mim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In academic papers, they often attribute a team effort like this:
>
> Pete Shinners, et al.
>
> "et al." is short for "et alia", which is Latin for "and others" (strictly
> speaking, "alii" is the plural of "other"). I'm pretty sure I've actually
> seen "et alia" on some papers too.
>
> If you want to make it clearer and avoid the Latin (I'm all for clarity)
> then you might prefer something like:
>
> Pete Shinners and others
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Â Â Â Â- Miriam
>
> Ryan Hope wrote:
>>
>> Is there a preferred way to cite PyGame in a journal article? At the
>> moment I am using the following BibTex entry but I am not sure how
>> correct this is.
>>
>> @Misc{pygame,
>> author = {Pete Shinners},
>> title = Â{PyGame},
>> howpublished = {\url{http://pygame.org/}},
>> year = {2011}
>> }
>>
>>
>
>
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