.. _citing_solarnet:

Acknowledging or Citing The SOLARNET Metadata Recommendations
=============================================================

If you use The SOLARNET Metadata Recommendations in your scientific work, we would appreciate citing it in your publications.
The continued growth and development of The SOLARNET Metadata Recommendations is dependent on the community being aware of it.

Citing The SOLARNET Metadata Recommendations in Publications
------------------------------------------------------------

Please add the following line within your methods, conclusion or acknowledgements sections:

   *This research used version X.Y.Z (software citation) of the SOLARNET Metadata Recommendations (project citation).*

The project citation should be to the original SOLARNET Metadata Recommendations paper, seen in the BibTex below. The software citation should be the specific Zenodo DOI (|zenodo_doi|) for the version used in your work.

.. code:: bibtex

    @article{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5719255,
      doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.5719255},
      url = {https://zenodo.org/record/5719255},
      author = {Haugan, Stein Vidar Hagfors and Fredvik, Terje},
      keywords = {Metadata, Solar observations},
      language = {en},
      title = {SOLARNET Metadata Recommendations for Solar Observations},
      publisher = {Zenodo},
      year = {2021},
      copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
    }

The latest Zenodo DOI and past versions can be found by visiting the SOLARNET Metadata Recommendations Zenodo page: |zenodo_doi|

.. |zenodo_doi| image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/794299551.svg
  :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15741506
  :alt: DOI

Other SOLARNET publications
###########################

- Previous Versions:
    - Version 1.4 (March 2021) |zenodo_v1_4|
    - Version 2.2 (March 2024) |arxiv_v2_2|

.. |zenodo_v1_4| image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.5719255.svg
  :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5719255
  :alt: DOI

.. |arxiv_v2_2| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2011.12139v4-b31b1b.svg
  :target: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12139v4
  :alt: arXiv