Software Policies
Over the last few years, publishers have been making their Software Citation Policies known either at the publisher level or at the journal level. These policies range in their mandate but many require authors to cite the software central to their findings, following published guidance from the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group.

CHORUS has created a centralized index of these policies with links to the publisher’s site. This chart will be updated at least annually.

Please let us know about any updates or requested enhancements by contacting us at info@chorusaccess.org.

Publisher Policy URL Policy Type
AAAS* https://www.sciencemag.org/authors/science-journals-editorial-policies#research-standards and https://www.science.org/content/page/instructions-preparing-initial-manuscript Publisher
AAS* https://journals.aas.org/policy-statement-on-software/ and https://journals.aas.org/news/software-citation-suggestions/ Publisher
ACM* https://www.acm.org/publications/artifacts Publisher
ACS* https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsguide.40303 Publisher
AGU* https://www.agu.org/publications/authors/journals/data-software-for-authors Publisher
AMetSociety* https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/publications/ethical-guidelines-and-ams-policies/data-and-software-policy-guidelines-for-ams-publications/ Publisher
APA https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/resources/publishing-policies Publisher
The Company of Biologists https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/journal-policies Publisher
CSIRO Publishing https://www.publish.csiro.au/sr/forauthors/authorinstructions#19 Publisher
eLife https://reviewer.elifesciences.org/author-guide/journal-policies Publisher
Elsevier* https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/research-data Publisher
F1000 https://f1000research.com/for-authors/article-guidelines/research-articles Publisher
Frontiers https://www.frontiersin.org/guidelines/policies-and-publication-ethics Publisher
GigaScience Press https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/pages/editorial_policies_and_reporting_standards#Availability%20of%20Data%20and%20Materials https://gigabytejournal.com/editorial-policies#availability-of-data-and-materials Journal
IEEE* https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/IEEE_Reference_Guide.pdf Publisher
IOP Publishing* https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/research-data/ Publisher
MDPI https://www.mdpi.com/authors/references Publisher
OUP* https://academic.oup.com/pages/open-research/research-data Publisher
PNAS* https://www.pnas.org/authors/editorial-and-journal-policies#materials-and-data-availability
PLoS https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/materials-software-and-code-sharing Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry* https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/author-and-reviewer-hub/authors-information/prepare-and-format/data-sharing/#dataandsoftwarecitation Publisher
Sage* TBD
Society for Neuroscience https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors Publisher
Springer Nature https://www.nature.com/nature-research/editorial-policies/reporting-standards#availability-of-computer-code and https://www.springeropen.com/get-published/editorial-policies Publisher
Taylor & Francis* https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/welcome-to-tf/digital-publishing-excellence/software-citation/ Publisher
The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Publisher
Wiley https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/data-sharing-citation/faqs.html Publisher

Notes: * Asterisks indicate CHORUS Publisher Members. Chart will be updated at least annually.

 

 

 

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Last updated 20 May 2025