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	author       =	{Dean, Walter and Naibo, Alberto},
	title        =	{{Recursive Functions}},
	booktitle    =	{The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
	editor       =	{Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman},
	howpublished =	{\url{https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2025/entries/recursive-functions/}},
	year         =	{2025},
	edition      =	{{S}pring 2025},
	publisher    =	{Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}
}

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There are over 50 BibTeX styles and no standard format that is guaranteed to work for all 50. So, we suggest you use our string as a 'useful suggestion' that might need to be adapted for your particular BibTeX file. Also note that the double braces around the title is to preserve capitalization. You may wish to edit that as well.

@InCollection{sep-recursive-functions,
	author       =	{Dean, Walter and Naibo, Alberto},
	title        =	{{Recursive Functions}},
	booktitle    =	{The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
	editor       =	{Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman},
	howpublished =	{\url{https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2025/entries/recursive-functions/}},
	year         =	{2025},
	edition      =	{{S}ummer 2025},
	publisher    =	{Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}
}