Referencing Max/MSP tutorials - author?

There's no standardized way to do this currently (though of course that's not to say you shouldn't try to give credit where it's due.

Personally I think a standardized way of doing this would be hugely helpful in class.

Perhaps a menu item that allow you to fill in a name and company/institution, and url, along with one that auto completes a time which the applies to a feild in the property inspector of all selected objects.

Then when you are interested in citing all the bits and pieces of other peoples patches, you could make a comment box property (toggle) use for citations, and all the list is formatted for the comment box.

Of course, now I'm just thinking aloud, sorry.