Hi Joe, Bence,
I was wondering about your preferred way for iolite to be cited in scientific publications.
Normally, for commercial products, I just refer to the name of the software, version, and manufacturer.
I see that in the output spreadsheets, in "things to cite", you mention:
- Paton, C., Hellstrom, J., Paul, B.,Woodhead, J. and Hergt, J. (2011) Iolite: Freeware for the visualisation and processing of mass spectrometric data. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. doi:10.1039/c1ja10172b.
- Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J., Hergt, J., Greig, A. & Maas, R (2007) Isotopic and elemental imaging of geological materials by laser ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma mass spectrometry. Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 31, p. 331-343.
So here are my questions:
1) The Paton paper is about a very old version of the software and says that Iolite is a freeware, non-commercial product. Do you have any more recent references? Alternatively, could I skip this, and write about my student license in the acknowledgements?
2) What's the second citation for?
Cheers,
Francesco