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I'm writing a paper on a technique which I have implemented in open source software. I'd like to reference the location of the open source software and the code I implemented for the technique so as to increase reproducibility of my findings.

I was thinking of adding a sentence somewhere along the lines of "Note that the source code can be found at github.com/..." or "Note that the implementation is open source.\ref{myrepository}" Which format is best?

I don't know where to put this line. In the introduction, the method description or the algorithm section? Other options would be the conclusion or the acknowledgements.

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    If you want, you can even make a specific release of your code citable with a DOI. See guides.github.com/activities/citable-code for more information.
    – mhwombat
    Apr 28, 2017 at 14:06
  • @mhwombat Thanks, but I'd like to know where and how to reference the bib item containing the DOI.
    – Tim Kuipers
    Apr 28, 2017 at 14:49

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Put the link where your readers will find it most easily, i.e. as early in the document as possible. A link to your repository in the introduction would be ideal. Placing an identical reference elsewhere in your paper wouldn't hurt - nothing is worse than having to hunt through a paper just to find the single github link.

Similarly, the exact format should be conducive to finding your code, so a direct link is likely easier to follow. A formal reference may work better if you reference the repository several times within the manuscript.

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