(en) John Moy, « RFC2328 OSPF Version 2 », (consulté le ) : « Using the Dijkstra algorithm, a tree is formed from this subset of the link state database. », p. 161
(en) David R. Oran, « RFC1142 : OSI IS-IS Intra-domain Routing Protocol », (consulté le ) : « An algorithm invented by Dijkstra (see references) known as shortest path first (SPF), is used as the basis for the route calculation. »