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.

For example, for Photutils v2.2.0, one should
cite Bradley et al. 2025 with the BibTeX entry
(https://zenodo.org/records/14889440/export/bibtex):

.. code-block:: text

    @software{larry_bradley_2025_14889440,
      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
                      Axel Donath and
                      Hans Moritz G{\"u}nther and
                      Mihai Cara and
                      P. L. Lim and
                      Sebastian Me{\ss}linger and
                      Zach Burnett and
                      Simon Conseil and
                      Michael Droettboom and
                      Azalee Bostroem and
                      E. M. Bray and
                      Lars Andersen Bratholm and
                      William Jamieson and
                      Adam Ginsburg and
                      Geert Barentsen and
                      Matt Craig and
                      Sergio Pascual and
                      Shivangee Rathi and
                      Marshall Perrin and
                      Brett M. Morris},
      title        = {astropy/photutils: 2.2.0},
      month        = feb,
      year         = 2025,
      publisher    = {Zenodo},
      version      = {2.2.0},
      doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.14889440},
      url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14889440},
      swhid        = {swh:1:dir:11159107f27a28985192ed1118b1f2055709d093
                       ;origin=https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.596036;visi
                       t=swh:1:snp:ae8c4a55d349d43e53cfe9ce92e678fcfe840f
                       3b;anchor=swh:1:rel:0117f67e8888adcdfc85308287dd9c
                       854b466389;path=astropy-photutils-ffb96c5
                      },
    }
