Citing MATLAB Optimization Toolbox (BibTex reference)

Hi all.

I would like to cite the MATLAB Optimization Toolbox in my work since I am using the linear programming part of the toolbox to solve my optimizaiton problem. How does one cite it?

Since I am using LaTeX for the report, I intend to use a BibTex format.

Answer 1

[Thorsten]

I would use something like this

@misc(MatlabOTB,
  key = {MATLAB Optimization Toolbox},
  title = {MATLAB Optimization Toolbox},
  year = {<The year of your version, you can find it out using ver>}
  note = {The MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA}
}

The note is the publisher and the address. You can modify it to your demands. "Don't take entries too seriously", as noted by the author of BibTeX in http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/base/btxdoc.pdf on page 12.

[Gunnar]

Great! Thanks for your answer!

Answer 2

[Gunnar]

For comparison, I can just attach the format that is used to cite the well-known CVX toolbox: http://cvxr.com/cvx/citing/

@misc{cvx,
  author       = {Michael Grant and Stephen Boyd},
  title        = {{CVX}: Matlab Software for Disciplined Convex Programming, version 2.1},
  howpublished = {\url{http://cvxr.com/cvx}},
  month        = mar,
  year         = 2014
}

@incollection{gb08,
  author    = {Michael Grant and Stephen Boyd},
  title     = {Graph implementations for nonsmooth convex programs},
  booktitle = {Recent Advances in Learning and Control},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences},
  editor    = {V. Blondel and S. Boyd and H. Kimura},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag Limited},
  pages     = {95--110},
  year      = 2008,
  note      = {\url{http://stanford.edu/~boyd/graph_dcp.html}}
}