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(Octave does NOT have a GUI. There are projects that implement a GUI for Octave but they are not Octave.)
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==How can I cite Octave?==
==How can I cite Octave?==


Pointing to http://www.octave.org is good, because that gives people a direct way to find out more. If citation of a URL is allowed by the publisher you can use this entry:
Pointing to http://www.octave.org is good, because that gives people a direct way to find out more. If citation of a URL is allowed by the publisher you can use this entry (update year and version accordingly!):


     <nowiki>@MISC{octave:2012,
     <nowiki>@MISC{octave:2012,
     author = {{Octave community}},
     author = {{Octave community}},
     keywords = {Octave,Software},
     keywords = {Octave,Software},
     title = {{GNU/Octave}},
     title = {{GNU/Octave 3.8}},
     url = {www.gnu.org/software/octave/},
     url = {www.gnu.org/software/octave/},
     year = {2012}
     year = {2014}
     }</nowiki>
     }</nowiki>


if you also want to point to a traditional reference, then you can cite the Octave manual:
if you also want to point to a traditional reference, then you can cite the Octave manual:


     <nowiki>@BOOK{eaton:2008,
     <nowiki>@BOOK{eaton:2009,
      author =     {{John W. Eaton}, {David Bateman} and {Søren Hauberg}},
    author   = {John W. Eaton and David Bateman and S\oren Hauberg},
      title =     {GNU Octave Manual Version 3},
    title     = {{GNU Octave} version 3.0.1 manual: a high-level interactive language for numerical computations},
      publisher = {Network Theory Limited},
    publisher = {CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform},
      year =       {2008},
    year     = {2009},
      isbn =      {0-9546120-6-X}
    note      = {{ISBN} 1441413006},
    }</nowiki>
    url       = {http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter},
    }</nowiki>




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