Pandoc: Is there a desired method for citing pandoc?

[StevenCHowell]

I am referencing the pandoc project in a journal publication I am contributing to. I would like to include a citation to more specifically direct people to the pandoc project. I looked through the documentation and about page but did not find a citation guide. Is there a preferred method for citing pandoc?

If not, I was thinking to use something like the following:

Pandoc Development Team (2016).  Pandoc: the swiss-army knife for converting files from one markup format into another.  
URL http://pandoc.org.

with a BibTeX entry for LaTeX users as:

@Manual{,
title = {Pandoc: the swiss-army knife for converting files from one markup format into another.},
author = {{Pandoc Development Team}},
year = {2016},
url = {http://pandoc.org},
}

[StevenCHowell]

Or we could just include the url in parenthesis, like this "...coverted to HTML using Pandoc (http://pandoc.org)."

[nichtich]

@jgm: if you create an account at https://zenodo.org (login via GitHub) and connect the pandoc repository, each pandoc release will automatically get a DOI: https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ Academics love DOIs.

[jgm]

I think pointing to pandoc.org in some way or another is
the best thing to do. For a title, you might use the
title on pandoc.org: "Pandoc: a universal document
converter." Of course, if you refer to a specific text,
such as the User's Guide, it would be good to cite that
directly.

+++ Steven C. Howell [Mar 06 17 07:21 ]:

I am referencing the pandoc project in a journal publication I am
contributing to. I would like to include a citation to more
specifically direct people to the pandoc project. I looked through the
[1]documentation and about page but did not find a citation guide. Is
there a preferred method for citing pandoc?

If not, I was thinking to use something like the following:
Pandoc Development Team (2016). Pandoc: the swiss-army knife for converting fil
es from one markup format into another.
URL http://pandoc.org.

with a BibTeX entry for LaTeX users as:
@Manual{,
title = {Pandoc: the swiss-army knife for converting files from one markup forma
t into another.},
author = {{Pandoc Development Team}},
year = {2016},
url = {http://pandoc.org},
}

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References

1. http://pandoc.org/index.html
2. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/3490
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[jgm]

PS. Questions should go to pandoc-discuss rather than here. This is for bugs and enhancement requests.

[jgm]

I'll check out zenodo.