[seqfan] Re: Referencing the OEIS

[Joerg Arndt]

* Mitch Harris <maharri at gmail.com> [Nov 21. 2008 10:34]:
> [...]

> 
> Just to put my opinion out there...
> 
> As much as I love getting the recognition for submitting a sequence to
> the OEIS, it feels a little weird getting a reference for it as a
> publication. Taking the OED and words as an example, the credit is
> given -in- the dictionary, and one might have a reference for a
> definition of a word that cites the OED, but it would be odd in that
> bibliographic reference to mention the person who -found- the quote in
> the literature (written by yet a third party) that used that word.
> 
> Which is to say I'd be more comfortable with something like just
> "A007970 Neil Sloane (ed) OEIS....". Accessing the OEIS will tell you
> the name of the original submitter.

I second this.  This way is also better when you have many refs
to the database (e.g. >150 as in
 http://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook-oeisref.txt ).

Also I avoid self-citation for the couple of sequences I submitted.



> 
> -- 
> Mitch Harris
> 

cheers,   jj