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== How to cite GRASS GIS ==

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

* GRASS GIS Manual citations,
* Peer reviewed general GRASS GIS articles,
* Books,
* Topic oriented citations.

Please select below:

=== GRASS GIS Manual citations ===

Software:
* GRASS Development Team, 2017. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 7.2. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document:. http://grass.osgeo.org
* GRASS Development Team, 2016. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 7.0. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document:. http://grass.osgeo.org
* GRASS Development Team, 2015. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 6.4. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document:. http://grass.osgeo.org

Programmer's manual:
* GRASS Development Team, 2017. 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, 2015. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS 6) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Electronic document: http://grass.osgeo.org/programming6/

Related BibTeX entry:
<pre>
  @Manual{GRASS_GIS_software,
    title = {Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) Software, Version 7.2},
    author = {{GRASS Development Team}},
    organization = {Open Source Geospatial Foundation},
    year = {2017},
    url = {http://grass.osgeo.org},
  }
</pre>

=== GRASS GIS Addon Manual citations ===

Hint: when citing addons, you can simply use "grass7" in the URL which is auto-expanded to the latest version (e.g. grass72/). Like this the latest addon version is found.

Example:
* M. Lennert and GRASS Development Team, 2017: “Addon i.segment.stats. Geographic resources analysis support system (GRASS) software, version 7.2”, https://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/i.segment.stats.html (1 June 2017)

=== Peer reviewed general GRASS GIS articles ===

* Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M., Metz, M., 2012.  <i>GRASS GIS: A multi-purpose open source GIS</i>. Environ Model Soft 31, 124–130. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.014 DOI] | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424040115/http://gis.cri.fmach.it/uploads/neteler_grass_env_model_software.pdf 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. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.014 DOI] | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424040115/http://gis.cri.fmach.it/uploads/neteler_grass_env_model_software.pdf PDF])

Related Bibtex entry:
<pre>
@article{neteler2012grass,
  title={{GRASS GIS: a multi-purpose Open Source GIS}},
  author={Neteler, M. and Bowman, M.H. and Landa, M. and Metz, M.},
  journal={Environmental Modelling \& Software},
  year={2012},
  volume = {31},
  pages = {124--130},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi = "10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.014"
}
</pre>

=== Books ===
* See https://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/books/

=== Topic oriented citations ===
* see [[Citations for specific modules]]
* Citations of [[GRASS in the wild]]  (add your publications here)

=== Historic citations ===

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* GRASS Development Team, 2012. GRASS 6.4 Users Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation, USA. Electronic document: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/
* 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.
* Shapiro, M., Westervelt, J., Gerdes, D., Higgins, M., & Larson, M. (1989). GRASS 3.0 programmer's manual (No. CERL-ADP-N-89/14). CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB (ARMY) CHAMPAIGN IL. (PDF: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA252461)
</font>

* Newsletter citations
** GRASSHopper CERL, https://grass.osgeo.org/home/history/documents/
** [[Newsletter citations Vol1]] 2004
** [[Newsletter citations Vol2]] 2005
** [[Newsletter citations Vol3]] 2005
** [[Newsletter citations Vol4]] 2006

== Helpful tools and GRASS related bibliographic searches ==
* [https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/manuals/addons/g.citation.html g.citation add-on module]
* [http://scholar.google.com Google Scholar]
** [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GRASS+GIS Search for "GRASS GIS"] (activate BibTex export in "Scholar preferences")
** The virtual [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gJ0ZB0cAAAAJ GRASS Development Team] - GRASS GIS related papers
* [http://www.citeulike.org CiteULike] - [http://www.citeulike.org/tag/grass Search for "GRASS"]
* [http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/ Bibutils] bibliography conversion utilities
* [http://gbib.seul.org Gbib BibTeX editor] for GTK+Gnome
* [http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ JabRef] Multi-platform, multi-format bibliography tool
* [http://www.zotero.org/groups/gis Zotero citation manager GIS group] - with all known GRASS GIS and other GIS related references

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