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Re: st: how to cite Stata helpfile
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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Re: st: how to cite Stata helpfile
Date
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:07:58 -0500
At 03:05 PM 11/7/2011, Jet wrote:
HI, how to cite a Stata helpfile (e.g., betafit) if needed? Wonder if
there is any suggested way to do so. Thanks!
The Stata 12 User's Guide says
The suggested citation for this software is
StataCorp. 2011. Stata: Release 12. Statistical Software. College
Station, TX: StataCorp LP.
For a built in command, I suppose you could also cite the appropriate
reference manual. I would especially do that if I was directly
quoting from the manual. The manual usually has the same text as the
help file, and more.
For a user-written command --
I would suggest seeing if the help file includes a suggested
citation. If you are using one of my programs, my strong preference
is that you cite one of my published articles, assuming I have
written a relevant article for the command.
Barring that, or in addition to, you might try citing the repec
pages. For example, the user-written ivreg2 help file makes this suggestion:
---------------
ivreg2 is not an official Stata command. It is a free contribution to
the research community, like a paper. Please cite it as such:
Baum, C.F., Schaffer, M.E., Stillman, S. 2010. ivreg2: Stata
module for extended instrumental variables/2SLS, GMM and AC/HAC, LIML
and k-class regression. http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s425401.html
---------------
As to when to cite - my own feeling is that if you are using a
user-written estimation command, you should cite the authors of that
command. Utilities, probably not, unless they had a really major
impact on the analysis. If you do feel a deep debt of gratitude for
some utilities, perhaps those authors could be mentioned in the
acknowledgments instead. Citations of published work are what is
going to help most scholars the most, but other types of appreciation
are nice as well.
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