I'm writing my Bachelor's thesis in \LaTeX and I noticed e.g. Python and Matplotlib have a preferred reference they want you to cite to acknowledge the project as a whole. What is the best/most formal reference I should cite when I want to acknowledge the developers and the community as a whole?
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Since it's a thesis and therefore an official document, if you want to say that your thesis was done in Latex (and so on), there's the colophon.
From Wikipedia:
In publishing, a colophon is a brief statement containing information about the publication of a book such as the place of publication, the publisher, and the date of publication. A colophon may also be emblematic or pictorial in nature.
I'd use that. Actually I did use that in my own thesis, and — to be precise — I chose a rotated triangle shape. I still placed it at the end of my document though, after my bibliography.
There are many other shapes and you could choose no shape at all (just search images for "colophon"), but a simple paragraph seemed so bland to me, so I went for the triangle which still retains some sobriety.
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Thanks for the colophon suggestion! I guess it's also a good place to provide a bibtex entry for my own thesis if anyone wants to cite my work?– ByteMeMay 16, 2016 at 10:43
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1@ByteMe I haven't used it like that, so I don't know the answer to that question. But I'm sure that if that was the case, you'd find examples of colophons showing that. I merely wrote that I used Latex, the packages as well as my own modifications, the font, etc.– AlenannoMay 16, 2016 at 10:48
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@Alenanno : I would put the colophon and the Bibtex entry on the same page.– ByteMeMay 16, 2016 at 10:50
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