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What should I cite?
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Ideally, you should indeed cite all the packages that you used. However, it's not very diegetic. Therefore, I would recommand the following.
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Ideally, you should indeed cite all the packages that you used. However, it's not very diegetic. Therefore, I would recommand the following:
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1. Cite the main / important packages in the manuscript
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These are for the packages that were central to your specific analysis (*i.e.,* that got you the results that you reported) rather than data manipulation tools (even though these are as much important).
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This should be done for the packages that were central to your specific analysis (*i.e.,* that got you the results that you reported) rather than data manipulation tools (even though these are as much important).
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For example:
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> Statistics were done using R 3.5.0 (R Core Team, 2018), the *rstanarm* (*v2.13.1*; Gabry & Goodrich, 2016) and the *psycho* (*v0.3.4*; Makowski, 2018). The code is available in **Supplementary Materials**.
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> Statistics were done using R 3.5.0 (R Core Team, 2018), the *rstanarm* (*v2.13.1*; Gabry & Goodrich, 2016) and the *psycho* (*v0.3.4*; Makowski, 2018) packages. The full reproducible code is available in **Supplementary Materials**.
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1. Present everything in Supplementary Materials
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2. Present everything in Supplementary Materials
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Then, in Supplementary Materials, you show the packages and function to use. Moreover, in R, you can include (usually at the end) every used package and their version using the `sessionInfo()`version.
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Then, in Supplementary Materials, you show the packages and functions you used. Moreover, in R, you can include (usually at the end) every used package and their version using the `sessionInfo()`function.
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How should I cite it?
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Finding the right citation information is sometimes complicated indeed. In R, this process is made quite easy, you simply run `citation("dplyr")`:
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Finding the right citation information is sometimes complicated. In R, this process is made quite easy, you simply run`citation("packagename")`. For instance,`citation("dplyr")`:
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To cite ‘dplyr’ in publications use:
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url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dplyr},
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For other languages, such as python, it might be a little trickier, but a **quick search on google (*or github*)** should provide you with all the necessary information (version, authors, date). **It's better to have a slightly incomplete citation than no citation at all.**
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For other languages, such as Python or Julia, it might be a little trickier, but a **quick search on google (*or github*)** should provide you with all the necessary information (version, authors, date). **It's better to have a slightly incomplete citation than no citation at all.**
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