title: How to cite moodle dev docs
body: <p>For my bachelorthesis I developed a small moodle plugin.</p>
  <p>During writing the report i am currently unsure how I should cite the moodle dev docs.</p>
  <p>Has someone maybe some hints for following questions?</p>
  <ol>
  <li>Is it in general necessary to cite the dev docs? Of course I used the documentation as a source to understand concepts, but actually the documentation is only a summary of the code. So you could also just give the code(-version) as a source or not?</li>
  <li>If I have to cite it, HOW should I do it? Should I cite every different page of the docs? Or only one citation with the URL of the main-page of the docs (for example at the beginning of my moodle-chapter)?</li>
  </ol>
  <p>Trying to answer my own question I would cite specific pages of the devs but only in cases where the underlying concept relative moodle specific is, like &quot;Frankenstyle&quot; (<a href="https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Frankenstyle" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Frankenstyle</a>) and not very obvious.</p>
  <p>Thanks!</p>