Citing EXIFTOOL in scientific publications

[CoffeePrincess]

I used EXIFTOOL for scientific research and would like to know how to cite it. Thanks!

[Phil Harvey]

I don't know.  How do you cite software in a research publication?

- Phil

[CoffeePrincess]

As mentioned to by the Journal of Statistical Software guidelines, software providers, especially those writing software within a research environment, may provide a recommended, or required, citation format for any researcher who uses the software within their research. This ensures that the provider's contribution to the research is acknowledged. For example, the authors of the R open source statistical programming language and environment provide a BibTeX entry in their FAQ that can be used if citing R

@Manual{,
title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
author = {{R Development Core Team}},
organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
address = {Vienna, Austria},
year = 2011,
note = {{ISBN} 3-900051-07-0},
url = {http://www.R-project.org}
}

So, perhaps you could just fill in these fields for me (i.e. title = ...) and I'll just add the reference to my citation database.

Thanks!

[Phil Harvey]

OK, try this:

title = {ExifTool},
author = {{Phil Harvey}},
address = {Kingston, Ontario, Canada},
url = {https://exiftool.org/},
year = 2016

- Phil

[CoffeePrincess]

Thanks!