# Citing Cantera

If you use Cantera in a publication, we would appreciate if you cited the version of
Cantera that you used. This helps to improve the reproducibility of your work, as well
as giving credit to the many
[authors](https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/blob/main/AUTHORS) who have contributed
their time to developing Cantera. The recommended citation for Cantera is as follows:

:::{admonition} Cantera 3.1.0
David G. Goodwin, Harry K. Moffat, Ingmar Schoegl, Raymond L. Speth, and Bryan W. Weber.
*Cantera: An object-oriented software toolkit for chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and
transport processes*. <https://www.cantera.org>, 2024. Version 3.1.0.
[doi:10.5281/zenodo.14455267](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14455267)
:::

The following BibTeX entry may also be used:

```bibtex
@misc{cantera,
    author = "David G. Goodwin and Harry K. Moffat and Ingmar Schoegl and Raymond L.
              Speth and Bryan W. Weber",
    title = "Cantera: An Object-oriented Software Toolkit for Chemical
             Kinetics, Thermodynamics, and Transport Processes",
    year = 2024,
    note = "Version 3.1.0",
    howpublished = "\url{https://www.cantera.org}",
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14455267}
}
```

If you are using a different version of Cantera, update the `year`, `note` and `doi`
fields accordingly. You can find the correct DOI for other versions of Cantera in
[Cantera's Zenodo Entry](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.742000).