This is driven by the format of the citation required by the institution or journal.
For example, the APA has guidelines for computer software references and, if these are to be followed, then the output from LaTeX needs to produce the appropriate format. An example they give (reference entry 92 for computer software) is
Miller, M. E. (1993). The Interactive Tester (Version 4.0) [Computer
software]. Westminster, CA: Psytek Services.
but there are a lot of precise rules for different categories of software. In many cases the software is not put into a reference entry but just mentioned in the text with its proper name and version number (see Publication Manual of the American Psychological Society (5th edition, 2001), p.280)
Another mailing list example is at http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2007-10/msg01823.html:
Software with a manual:
@BOOK{lapack99,
AUTHOR = {Anderson, E. and Bai, Z. and Bischof, C. and
Blackford, S. and Demmel, J. and Dongarra, J. and
Du Croz, J. and Greenbaum, A. and Hammarling, S. and
McKenney, A. and Sorensen, D.},
TITLE = {{LAPACK} Users' Guide},
EDITION = {Third},
PUBLISHER = {Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics},
YEAR = {1999},
ADDRESS = {Philadelphia, PA},
ISBN = {0-89871-447-8 (paperback)}
}
@Article{frigo-johnson05,
author = {Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson},
title = {The design and implementation of {FFTW3}},
journal = pieee,
year = 2005,
volume = 93,
number = 2,
pages = {216--231},
month = {February}
}
Free software with no published manual:
@Misc{popinet00,
author = {Stephane Popinet},
title = {{GTS}: {GNU} {Triangulated} {Surface} library},
howpublished = {\url{http://gts.sourceforge.net/}},
year = {2000--2004}
}
Have you considered LyX or some other word processor-like front end to LaTeX (Scientific Workplace, maybe).
I mean, not what you asked for, but you didn't say why you wanted this. Is it the interface? Or something else?
BTW-- That default TeX font is called Computer Modern, which might help you in your search. And in the wikipedia link I find
and others which are probably just what you need.
Best Answer
You could also use the biblatex package which allows the date as an optional field on article.