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Referencing & Citation
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Any publications including simulations made using pyg4ometry **must** cite:

S.D. Walker, A. Abramov, L.J. Nevay, W. Shields, S.T. Boogert,
pyg4ometry: A Python library for the creation of Monte Carlo radiation transport physical geometries,
Computer Physics Communications **272** 108228 (2022).

* `<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108228>`_

* Preprint was: `<https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01109>`_ but the above should be used.

The bibtex citation from `<https://inspirehep.net/literature/1821231>`_:
::

   @article{Boogert:2020cmn,
    author = "Boogert, Stewart and Abramov, Andrey and Nevay, Laurence and Shields, William and Walker, Stuart",
    title = "{Pyg4ometry: A Python library for the creation of Monte Carlo radiation transport physical geometries}",
    eprint = "2010.01109",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "physics.comp-ph",
    doi = "10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108228",
    journal = "Comput. Phys. Commun.",
    volume = "272",
    pages = "108228",
    year = "2022"
    }



Citations allow the authors to demonstrably show the code usage and therefore to
continue to support the development and maintenance of pyg4ometry.

Other publications on pyg4ometry:

 * `Pyg4ometry : A Tool To Create Geometries For Geant4, Bdsim, G4Beamline and Fluka For Particle Loss and Energy Deposit Studies, IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 2019 <https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPTS054>`_ Google scholar `cites <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=7483314837088930734&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en>`_