.. _citation:

Citing Regions
--------------

If you use Regions 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 Regions, an Astropy package for region
    handling (Bradley et al. <YEAR>).

where (Bradley et al. <YEAR>) is a citation to the `Zenodo record
<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5826358>`_ of the Regions version
that was used. We also encourage citations in the main text wherever
appropriate.

BibTeX files for all Regions versions can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5826358.
