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== Citing Free Pascal ==
 
== Citing Free Pascal ==
  
* Free Pascal Team (1993-2016). Free Pascal: A 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler. URL http://www.freepascal.org. RRID:SCR_014360.
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* Free Pascal Team (1993-2016). Free Pascal: A 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler. Version 3.0. URL http://www.freepascal.org. RRID:SCR_014360.
  
 
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
 
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

Revision as of 22:20, 15 May 2016

The Lazarus and Free Pascal teams as well as external contributors have invested a lot of time and effort in creating and maintaining the software. Please cite the tools when using them for scientific purposes.

The following citing style is the result of a discussion on the Lazarus forum, which took place over several months in the beginning of 2016.

Citing Free Pascal

  • Free Pascal Team (1993-2016). Free Pascal: A 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler. Version 3.0. URL http://www.freepascal.org. RRID:SCR_014360.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

 @Manual{,
   title = {Free Pascal: A 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler},
   author = {{Free Pascal Team}},
   year = {1993-2016},
   address = {Fairfax, VA},
   url = {http://www.freepascal.org},
 }

Citing Lazarus

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

 @Manual{,
   title = {Lazarus: The professional Free Pascal RAD IDE},
   author = {{Lazarus Team}},
   year = {1993-2016},
   address = {Fairfax, VA},
   url = {http://www.lazarus-ide.org},
 }