How to cite a User's Guide?
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Hi,
I would like to put a reference in an article with the Image Processing User's Guide. I found on Google Scholar some old bibtex entry:
@book{thompson1995image,
title={Image Processing Toolbox: For Use with MATLAB;[user's Guide]},
author={Thompson, C.M. and Shure, L.},
year={1995},
publisher={MathWorks}
}
but I would like to refer to the latest user's guide: R2011b.
What is the best way to do this?
Thanks,
Razvan
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Daniel Shub
2011년 11월 10일
Using www.mathworks.com/help/pdf_doc/gads/gads_tb.pdf and APA style as an example: I would treat it as a mix between a "Report From a Private Organizationin" (<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/09/>) and an Electronic Books (<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/)>. Leading to the following citation:
Mathworks. (2011). Global Optimization Toolbox: User's Guide (r2011b). Retrieved November 10, 2011 from www.mathworks.com/help/pdf_doc/gads/gads_tb.pdf
Noting that I am not sure on if it should be Mathworks, The Mathworks, or The MathWorks. I would also want to double check that I handled the subtitle of User's Guide correctly.
I would also consider looking around and seeing if I could find a more permanent link to the current version.
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Walter Roberson
2011년 11월 16일
The Copyright notices I was looking at last night all said
The MathWorks, Inc.
(except for a very small number that did not have the comma and were obviously incorrect exceptions)
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Jan
2011년 10월 15일
The latest user's guide is currently the one of 2011b, but it will be 2012a in the near future, and then 2012b, etc. Only the documentation of current release can be accessed, if you do not have a MATLAB license. Therefore citing a document, which is not available in general, is of limited use only.
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Jan
2011년 10월 15일
Yes, there is a link. But the access of the documentation of former releases is restricted to users who are associated to a license.
Daniel Shub
2011년 11월 10일
@Jan, the fact that a new edition is expected is not a reason to not cite the current edition. Further, just because a key piece of information was published in an obscure place and difficult to get, doesn't mean you should give the credit to someone else. Now the author is trying to provide a general reference (my guess given it is a user's guide), then it makes more sense to cite an easily available source.
Daniel Shub
2011년 11월 10일
I am going to go with don't cite it. User's guides are secondary sources and you tend to be better off citing primary sources.
If you are going to cite a MATLAB user's guide, you need to cite the version you looked at. The MATLAB user's guides are available in a variety of formats. The easiest to cite woudl either be the hard copy (if you have it) or the online documentation (citing it as an electronic book).
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