In a series of tweets (starting with one from @dimazest and including some from @turingfan, @Iza_Romanowska, and @CIRCA_StAndrews), it’s become apparent that we don’t have a standard way of providing attribution (e.g., citations, acknowledgements, dependencies) within software like we do in papers, where we have standard acknowledgement and reference sections, and for at least the reference section, a standard practice