How to cite Stan [moved to GitHub]

I’m about to cite Stan in a journal article. The canonical recommendation reads:

To cite Stan itself you can cite the Stan manual, taking the year and version from the latest release documented at https://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/:
Stan Development Team. YEAR. Stan Modeling Language Users Guide and Reference Manual, VERSION. https://mc-stan.org

However, the user’s guide and the reference manual are now separate books. Time for an updated recommendation?

Sorry if I’m missing something.

no, you’re not missing anything - this is a good question. I’ve created an issue for the Stan @SGB: how to cite Stan and DOIs · Issue #9 · stan-dev/sgb · GitHub

let’s continue the discussion there

3 Likes

Hi,
I see that the github issue is still open, but in the meanwhile maybe I can get an answer.

I’m trying to cite the Stan user guide/reference manual that corresponds to ver 2.32 (since that is the current rstan)
I’ll do something like this:

@Misc{Stan,
Author = {{Stan Development Team}},
Title = {Stan Modeling Language Users Guide and Reference Manual, version 2.32},
url ={https://mc-stan.org},
Year = {}
}

But how can I find out the year? And also is there a url where the user guides/reference manuals of different versions can be found?

You can create a versioned link to our docs by adding the version in between /docs/ and the name of the manual in the url. For example,

https://mc-stan.org/docs/2_32/reference-manual/index.html

Stan 2.32 was released in April of 2023

2 Likes