.. _citation:

Citing Photutils
----------------

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:

.. code-block:: text

    This research made use of Photutils, an Astropy package for
    detection and photometry of astronomical sources (Bradley et al.
    <YEAR>).

where (Bradley et al. <YEAR>) is a citation to the `Zenodo record
<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.596036>`_ of the Photutils version
that was used. We also encourage citations in the main text wherever
appropriate.

BibTex files for all Photutils versions can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.596036.
