Thanks for the response. I'll try to put something along these lines in, but I
don't know if it will fly. The usual kind of cited (and numbered) reference
is:

"26.  Shmo, J.  How to make really  neat pictures. Journal of POVrayology, 2,
23-26. (1999)"

I originally just wrote:

"30. POVRAY. Persistence of vision raytracer 3.1"

The editors wrote back "please provide author and place/institution of
publication"

I don't know if these journals are ready to cite web pages as a reference.
I'll try and find out.

I may just have to allude to POVRAY in the text, by name, without a reference.

Cheers,

Jim


Ken wrote:

> jim wrote:
> >
> > I have used POVRAY to render some images of scientific structures, and I
> > am about to publish the images in a scientific journal. I would like to
> > cite some reference to the POVRAY program and developers. Is there an
> > approved citation?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim
>
>  I don't believe the POV-Team has an official statement available for
> this purpose. Probably the best you can hope to do is to mention that:
>
>    POV-Ray is a "Raytracing" program that operates with a text based
> interface and produces near photographic quality images. POV-Ray is a
> freely available program that is developed and maintained by a group
> of volunteer programmers who do this in their spare time as a hobby.
> POV-Ray is quite often used a chemical/molecular visualization tool
> and many programs have be written that allow people doing scientific
> research to have the ability to show their work in ways never before
> possible.
>
>   You might also wish to include a web page address for the program so
> if people are interested they can explore the program for themselves.
>
> http://www.povray.org
>
> --
> Ken Tyler - POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group Memeber

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