Citation for the Real Statistics Software or Website

Software

You can cite the Real Statistics software in a publication as follows:

“The data analysis for this paper was generated using the Real Statistics Resource Pack software (Release 8.9.1). Copyright (2013 – 2023) Charles Zaiontz. www.real-statistics.com.”

The above citation uses the latest software release. If you used an earlier release, simply use that number. This number can be found using the =VER() function in the software.

Website

You can reference the Real Statistics website as follows:

Zaiontz, C. (2023) Real Statistics Using Excel. www.real-statistics.com

Since the website changes all the time as I add new information, you should also add the date(s) when you accessed the website.

23 thoughts on “Citation for the Real Statistics Software or Website”

  1. Hello Dr. Charles!

    Hope you will be fine and doing well. I want to thank you for creating such a nice and amazing resource pack software! I used it while learning the basics and advanced statistical analysis techniques. You helped me a lot in clarifying several concepts. Keep it up, please!
    Again, Thank you so much!

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  2. Can you give us a citation in the form of BibTeX or RIS so we can import it exactly into our citation management software?

    Thank you again for this great tool!

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    • Hi Bill,
      I wasn’t able to find a simple-to-use online program to convert the existing citation to BibTeX or RIS format. Are you able to do this?
      Charles

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  3. What is the licensing for this website? I’d like to use one of the critical value tables, but don’t want copyright infringement.

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    • MO,
      If you send me an email specifying the table you want to use and how you want to use it, I will likely grant you permission to use the table.
      Charles

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  4. Hi Charles!

    We have been using your website for our thesis. We need the place and country for our citation. We tried to find it here on the webpage but could not.

    Thank you in advance!

    Best regards,

    Yasemin

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      • Thanks for all your help. Sorry if my last message was too confrontational.

        Also, I am writing a paper that uses this software for data analysis. I am using APA 7th edition for formatting. I followed your suggestion about the in-text citation about your software. Would the following citation be accurate (except for the title not being in italics)…..?

        Zaiontz, C. (2020). Real Statistics Resource Pack software (Release 7.6) [Computer software]. https://www.real-statistics.com/

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        • Hello David,
          First, regarding your previous comment, I have tried to test the software with known examples to ensure its accuracy. Occasionally, I do make a mistake or some error slips in inadvertently in a later release. Fortunately, the user community has been very diligent about finding errors, even very small errors, and bringing them to my (and, often, everyone else’s) attention. I try to make corrections as soon as I can. None of this is fool-proof, but so far I think I am doing a pretty good job (although I am open to ways to make improvements).
          The citation looks good to me, but, of course, the format of the citation also depends on the criteria used by the journal or other publishing source.
          Charles

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  5. I can’t believe how incredibly useful this is, you literally saved my dissertation. Just banged out some ANOVAs and MANOVAs for free, no problem! Can’t thank you enough for creating this, you are doing such a service.

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  6. hi Charles….am so grad for this tool since i found it so helpful to me….plz is it possible to provide examples which have been worked out so that i can find it relevant as i read through …..i request for this because i have a problem in this course but am so interested in it as one of my favourite courses…. plz assist me to persue the course well with using relevant examples …. am eager to get your response back concerning the matter plz. Thank you.

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  7. Dear Charles.
    Thank you so much for your kindness in sharing this tools and helping me with my analysis. Thank you for taking time to reply my email and answering my questions (which might be so basic).
    I have finished my master thesis and properly cited your software. I will totally recommend it to other friends.

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  8. Excellent support to the researchers using data in their fields. Analysis is now simple and easy with the great tools and help files. My sincere thanks to the author Charles Zaiontz for a wonderful job.

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  9. Charles,
    I wanted to thank you for an excellent site that I have found very helpful and which I have also directed my students to.
    Thanks,

    Joe

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  10. Dear Sir,

    You have been of immense help to me in my research in Applied Linguistics and I’d like to acknowledge it. Could you plz inform me your current official capacity so that I can do the same?

    Regards,
    Meera.

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    • Meera,
      You can see the various roles I have played in the past by going to the Author webpage. My current capacity is retired and responsible for the Real Statistics website and software.
      Charles

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