Citing WordSmith

The date: WordSmith evolves gradually and is re-issued very often (about once a week). When you check your version and get the very latest one you are updating and thereby altering slightly the program, its Help and the accompanying manual. I also update the online Help often.

Basic Dates

For the basic publication dates check out the list of publications where you will find something like this:
• Scott, M., 1996, Wordsmith Tools, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-458984-6. "
• Scott, M., 1997, Wordsmith Tools version 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-459283-9. "
• Scott, M., 1999, Wordsmith Tools version 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-459289-8. "
• Scott, M., 2002, Guardian Keywords Database Viewer, Amsterdam: Rodopi. (in cover of Scott 2002 below).
• Scott, M., 2004, WordSmith Tools version 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-459400-9. "

the current one is
Scott, M., 2008, WordSmith Tools version 5, Liverpool: Lexical Analysis Software.

The Program (wordsmith.exe)

Scott, M., 2008, WordSmith Tools. Liverpool: Lexical Analysis Software.

The Help with WordSmith (wordsmith.chm)

e.g. Scott, M., 2008, WordSmith Tools Help. Liverpool: Lexical Analysis Software.

The Manual with WordSmith (wordsmith.pdf)

e.g. Scott, M., 2008, WordSmith Tools Help. Liverpool: Lexical Analysis Software.

For any of these you might if you wanted add version details such as “version 5.0.0.87” which you would find by accessing Help | About.

The Online Help

e.g. Scott, M., 2008, WordSmith Tools Help. Liverpool: Lexical Analysis Software. http://www.lexically.net/downloads/version5/HTML/proc_tag_handling.htm (last accessed XX.XX.2008)
(You can refer to the exact page in Firefox by right-clicking on that page, then This Frame | View Frame Info. or in Internet Explorer by right-clicking and viewing Properties.)