# How to cite Julia in publications?

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**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [April 12, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060 "2019-04-12T01:06:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/1 "2019-04-12T01:06:18Z")

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What is the proper citation for Julia itself? [julialang.org](http://julialang.org)? Or one of the foundational articles?

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/2 "2019-04-12T02:04:10Z")

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I think that [https://julialang.org/research/julia-fresh-approach-BEKS.pdf](https://julialang.org/research/julia-fresh-approach-BEKS.pdf) is a good one to cite.

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/3 "2019-04-12T02:06:23Z")

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Okay. How about if I wanted to direct the reader to the actual programming language? How does this look to you?  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/e/ee88bf3e5dcf5269b79f23f072424427eaddaf15.png)

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/4 "2019-04-12T02:51:40Z")

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Oh man, the link from your paper to the SIAM website is already broken. How ephemeral the URLs are!

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/5 "2019-04-12T08:46:35Z")

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Interestingly, that link (on my browser/PDF viewer) points to `http://www.siam.org/journals/s` rather than `http://www.siam.org/journals/sirev/59-1/100067.html`. I wonder if this is a mistake in the original LaTeX to PDF conversion…

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/6 "2019-04-12T14:57:33Z")

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Or, would you prefer I credit BEKS instead of “the Julia development team”?

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**Author:** ![viralbshah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/viralbshah/32/54_2.png) [@viralbshah](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/viralbshah)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/7 "2019-04-16T17:30:30Z")

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The preferred citation and bibtex entry is as follows. Citing this greatly helps with funding agencies as the Julia Lab writes grant proposals etc.

```julia
@article{bezanson2017julia,
  title={Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing},
  author={Bezanson, Jeff and Edelman, Alan and Karpinski, Stefan and Shah, Viral B},
  journal={SIAM review},
  volume={59},
  number={1},
  pages={65--98},
  year={2017},
  publisher={SIAM},
  url={https://doi.org/10.1137/141000671}
}

```

_In addition_, if you want to point the readers to download Julia, you can link the URL to [https://julialang.org](https://julialang.org) and credit it to “The Julia Project”.

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**Author:** ![Juan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juan/32/7657_2.png) [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/9 "2019-09-17T00:50:42Z")

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And how should we cite Julia’s packages?  
For example MixedModels.jl?

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**Author:** ![Azamat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/azamat/32/6892_2.png) [@Azamat](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Azamat)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/10 "2019-09-17T06:32:08Z")

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Relevant [proposal](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/33295)

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**Author:** ![mauro3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mauro3/32/292_2.png) [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 7:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/11 "2019-09-17T07:25:07Z")

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There should be a CITATION.bib in the top package folder. Otherwise search the documentation. If there is no paper to cite, cite it with URL.

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**Author:** ![nalimilan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nalimilan/32/147_2.png) [@nalimilan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nalimilan)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 7:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/12 "2019-09-17T07:35:17Z")

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Some packages use Zenodo for this. It’s been added recently to [GLM](https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsFuns.jl/issues/46#issuecomment-531900899), so you could file an issue to enable it for MixedModels too.

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**Author:** ![Xing\_Shi\_Cai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xing_shi_cai/32/14128_2.png) [@Xing\_Shi\_Cai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Xing_Shi_Cai)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/13 "2021-05-12T17:36:21Z")

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Link is broken.

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/14 "2021-05-12T20:22:34Z")

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@viralbshah since you deleted the file.

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/15 "2021-05-13T02:19:24Z")

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The PDF is available at [Research](https://julialang.org/research/), together with the link to article published in the journal

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**Author:** ![viralbshah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/viralbshah/32/54_2.png) [@viralbshah](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/viralbshah)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/16 "2021-05-24T13:49:30Z")

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I deleted my message to avoid the broken link. Unfortunately that experiment did not pan out - but google scholar and everyone gives you the standard citation bib. So, shouldn’t be a problem.

-viral