Citation

If you use CodeBook Lab in research, please cite the software package and the associated preprint.

Software

APSR style:

McLaren, Lorcan. 2026. CodeBook Lab (Version v1.4.0) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19185921.

BibTeX:

@software{mclaren_codebook_lab_2026,
  author = {McLaren, Lorcan},
  title = {CodeBook Lab},
  year = {2026},
  version = {v1.4.0},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.19185921},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19185921}
}

Preprint

APSR style:

McLaren, Lorcan, James P. Cross, Zuzanna Krakowska, Robin Rauner, and Martijn Schoonvelde. 2026. Magic Words or Methodical Work? Challenging Conventional Wisdom in LLM-Based Political Text Annotation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.26898. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26898.

BibTeX:

@misc{mclaren_magic_words_2026,
  author = {McLaren, Lorcan and Cross, James P. and Krakowska, Zuzanna and Rauner, Robin and Schoonvelde, Martijn},
  title = {Magic Words or Methodical Work? Challenging Conventional Wisdom in LLM-Based Political Text Annotation},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.26898},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CL},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2603.26898},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26898}
}

License

CodeBook Lab is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. You are free to use, modify, and distribute it — including over a network — provided derivative works are licensed under the same terms.