how to add imageJ so it cites as the authors prefer?

SosnickiD

Hello,

On the imagej website, the creators say that it should be cited as follows. How do i enter this into my zotero library so that it shows up this way in my bibliography?

Rasband, W.S., ImageJ, U. S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/, 1997-2018.

I have tried entering it several different ways with the information in different fields of entry and it never seems to show up looking like above. Thank you!

aborel

Where does the website say that? The citation guideline I'm seeing is different.

From https://imagej.net/contribute/citing :
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The general paper of ImageJ flavor(s) used; e.g.:

If you used Fiji, cite the Fiji paper.
If you used ImageJ2, cite the ImageJ2 paper.
If you used the original ImageJ, cite the ImageJ paper.
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All three references are just normal journal articles described by standard metadata, so maybe this is actually a non-problem?

SosnickiD

Thank you! I see it listed as the software citation on this page:https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/docs/faqs.html

It gives two options that are papers, but I was hoping to cite the actual software, too.

adamsmith

The format of citations is determined by the citation style, not by the author of a book/article/dataset/software package.
You should include the relevant info (authors, publisher, URL) in the metadata and then let the citation style handle the rest. In general for software citation it's be typical to cite the date of the software version you actually used, not the whole span of its develpment, but if you really want to cite a year span, use issued: 1997/2018 in extra.