In this article, we present the challenge of software citation as a method to ensure credit for and identification, discovery, and reuse of software in scientific and engineering research. We discuss related work and key challenges/research directions, including suggestions for metadata necessary for software citation.
@article{Niemeyer:2016sc,
Author = {Kyle E. Niemeyer and Arfon M. Smith and Daniel S. Katz},
Title = {The challenge and promise of software citation for credit, identification, discovery, and reuse},
Journal = {Journal of Data and Information Quality},
Pages = {16},
Volume = {7},
Number = {4},
Year = 2016,
doi = {10.1145/2968452}
}