TITLE: Etiquette question: how to acknowledge Bugs Bunny?
QUESTION [13 upvotes]: 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?

REPLY [21 votes]: 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.