Timeline for How to cite a sequence from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)?
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| May 20, 2013 at 22:41 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | You could do worse than mimic references for MathOverflow. Doing a full-text search in arXiv yields many examples, one of which is 1207.1020 involving nilpotency of finite groups. That suggests something like "This sequence appears in OEIS" (or "in Sloane's database") " as A001970 [OEIS1970]...", followed by a bibitem that would be something nicer than "[OEIS1970] Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Sequence A001970, oeis.org/search?A001970 , N. J. A Sloane ... 2013." Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2013.05.20 | |
| May 20, 2013 at 22:08 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | That said, the question is "what to do?" in a practical case, where I can write a line of a reference (as for other articles and books). | |
| May 20, 2013 at 21:48 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | In theory, a (hidden) inline may be a good option (to make it clear, self-contained and as now we don't need to pay for paper and ink). Sure, for it is also a boon to archeologists discovering our civilization. I am aware of some dangers (even the previous (i.e. research.att.com/~njas/sequences) link to OEIS is not working), but otherwise numbering seems to be consistent and I want to provide only a reference, not use it as a detailed argument. | |
| May 20, 2013 at 20:48 | history | answered | Gerhard Paseman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |