citation for jupyter lab

[ErichBSchulz]

I'm writing a paper and want to give proper credit.

google has not been forthcoming!

If there was a DOI that would be great.

But perhaps even a not in the FAQ page to say how you want to be cited?

https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/faq.html

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[isabela-pf]

Hi there, and thanks for opening this issue! I definitely thought I had a quick answer to this and was proven wrong when I went to get you a link. Thanks for making me learn, too.

It looks to me like the JupyterLab team hasn't defined a singular way for JupyterLab to be cited. There's been discussions around the wider Jupyter community Discourse

• How to cite Jupyter interactive widgets in an academic paper?
• Materials for linking and citing Jupyter
• Or maybe there's a similar approach to what Binder recommends in citing a conference paper that announces the project?

And we have a process for authoring Jupyter-related papers where the community may be more involved…

but I can't find anything about citing JupyterLab!

Let me ask around and see if I can get something more certain or if I'm missing something. In the meantime, I hope these resources help.

[ErichBSchulz]

Thanks Isabela I had encountered the same reference.

I saw some folk had suggested the need for a DOI. I don't think this is really needed and it maybe as simple as telling people to cite the project via it's website. The question is which one?

• https://github.com/jupyterlab
• https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab
• http://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[isabela-pf]

I asked at the JupyterLab team meeting today, and it was confirmed that there is not currently a standard citation method. This is something we'll be following up with on the jupyterlab/team-compass (the repo where we try to coordinate these kind of high-level project questions). People want to have a standard citation, it's just never a high enough priority over maintaining the project!

I agree that the website seems good for now! I think any of the options you listed would work, especially since they link to one another. I would personally cite https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab because it most directly shows the project and the people who work on it.