Suppose that a mathematician such as Bugs Bunny answers one of my math questions here on MathOverflow, and then I use the idea in a research paper. How should I acknowledge such a distinguished mathematician in my paper, submitted to a reputable journal and all that?



Etiquette question: how to acknowledge Bugs Bunny?
Look right underneath where your question is posted. Click on the "cite" link. It will pop up a text box, from which you can copy citation data for this post in either bibtex or amsrefs format. So you can directly cite the MO thread.


