Citing PhotutilsΒΆ
If you use Photutils for a project that leads to a publication, whether directly or as a dependency of another package, please include the following acknowledgment:
This research made use of Photutils, an Astropy package for
detection and photometry of astronomical sources (Bradley et al.
20XX).
where (Bradley et al. 20XX) is a citation to the Zenodo record of the Photutils version that was used. We also encourage citations in the main text wherever appropriate.
All Photutils versions and citation formats can be found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.596036. For example, for Photutils v1.0.0 one would cite Bradley et al. 2020 with the BibTeX entry (https://zenodo.org/record/4044744/export/hx):
@software{larry_bradley_2020_4044744,
author = {Larry Bradley and
Brigitta Sip{\H o}cz and
Thomas Robitaille and
Erik Tollerud and
Z\`e Vin{\'{\i}}cius and
Christoph Deil and
Kyle Barbary and
Tom J Wilson and
Ivo Busko and
Hans Moritz G{\"u}nther and
Mihai Cara and
Simon Conseil and
Azalee Bostroem and
Michael Droettboom and
E. M. Bray and
Lars Andersen Bratholm and
P. L. Lim and
Geert Barentsen and
Matt Craig and
Sergio Pascual and
Gabriel Perren and
Johnny Greco and
Axel Donath and
Miguel de Val-Borro and
Wolfgang Kerzendorf and
Yoonsoo P. Bach and
Benjamin Alan Weaver and
Francesco D'Eugenio and
Harrison Souchereau and
Leonardo Ferreira},
title = {astropy/photutils: 1.0.0},
month = sep,
year = 2020,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {1.0.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4044744},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4044744}
}