GRASS Citation Repository

How to cite GRASS GIS

Please cite GRASS when using the software in your work. Here are some choices depending on the version used:

GRASS GIS Manual citations

• GRASS Development Team, 2012. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. http://grass.osgeo.org
• GRASS Development Team, 2012. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS 6) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Electronic document: http://grass.osgeo.org/programming6/
• GRASS Development Team, 2012. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS 7) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Electronic document: http://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/
• GRASS Development Team, 2011. GRASS 6.4 Users Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation, USA. Electronic document: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/
• GRASS Development Team, 2007. GRASS 6.2 Users Manual. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. Electronic document: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass62/manuals/html62_user/
• GRASS Development Team, 2002. GRASS 5.0 Users Manual. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. Electronic document: http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass5/
• U.S. Army CERL, 1993. GRASS 4.1 Reference Manual. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, Illinois, 1-425.

Related BibTeX entry:

  @Manual{GRASS_GIS_software,
    title = {Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) Software},
    author = {{GRASS Development Team}},
    organization = {Open Source Geospatial Foundation},
    year = {2011},
    url = {http://grass.osgeo.org},
  }

Peer reviewed general GRASS GIS articles

• Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M., Metz, M., 2012. GRASS GIS: A multi-purpose open source GIS. Environ Model Soft 31, 124–130. (DOI | PDF)
• Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M., Metz, M. (2012) "GRASS GIS: A multi-purpose open source GIS." Environmental Modelling & Software. Vol 31, pp. 124–130. (DOI | PDF)

Books

• M. Neteler and H. Mitasova, 2008, Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach. 3rd Ed. 406 pp, 80 illus., Springer, New York. Online Supplement: http://www.grassbook.org/

Topic oriented citations

• see Citations for specific modules
• Citations of GRASS in the wild (add your publications here)

• Newsletter citations
  • Newsletter citations Vol1
  • Newsletter citations Vol2
  • Newsletter citations Vol3
  • Newsletter citations Vol4

• Historical citations

• Master file of all citations for download (todo once we have collected enough)

Helpful tools and GRASS related bibliographic searches

• Google Scholar - Search for "GRASS GIS" (activate BibTex export in "Scholar preferences")
• CiteULike - Search for "GRASS"
• Bibutils bibliography conversion utilities
• Gbib BibTeX editor for GTK+Gnome
• JabRef Multi-platform, multi-format bibliography tool
• Zotero citation manager GIS group - with all known GRASS references