Abstract
Ontology citation, the practice of referring the ontology in a similar fashion the scientific community routinely follows in providing the bibliographic references to other scholarly works, has not received enough attention it supposed to. Interestingly, so far none of the existing standard citation styles (e.g., APA, CMOS, and IEEE) have included ontology as a citable information source in the list of citable information sources such as journal article, book, website, etc. Also, not much work can be found in the literature on this topic though there are various issues and aspects of it that demand a thorough study. For instance, what to cite? Is it the publication that describes the ontology, or the ontology itself? The citation format, style, illustration of motivations of ontology citation, the citation principles, ontology impact factor, citation analysis, and so forth. In this work, we primarily analyse the current ontology citation practices and the related issues. We illustrate the various motivations and the basic principles of ontology citation. We also propose a template for referring the source of ontologies.
Abstract (translated)
本体引用，科学界在提供其他学术着作的书目参考时经常遵循的类似方式引用本体的实践，没有得到足够的重视。有趣的是，到目前为止，现有的标准引用方式（例如，APA，CMOS和IEEE）都没有将本体作为可引用信息源列入可信信息源，如期刊文章，书籍，网站等。此外，不是关于这个主题的文献中可以找到很多工作，尽管有各种各样的问题和方面需要进行彻底的研究。例如，引用什么？它是描述本体或本体本身的出版物吗？引文格式，风格，本体引文动机说明，引文原则，本体影响因子，引文分析等。在这项工作中，我们主要分析当前的本体引用实践和相关问题。我们举例说明了本体引用的各种动机和基本原理。我们还提出了一个参考本体来源的模板。
URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01462
