# How to cite Julia packages for academic purpose?

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [April 27, 2022, 11:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-packages-for-academic-purpose/80124 "2022-04-27T11:15:41Z")\
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> [@How to cite Julia in publications?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cite-julia-in-publications/23060/12):
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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.

and on a specific package/ecosystem:

> [@Julia, JuMP, and Gurobi what MUST be cited?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-jump-and-gurobi-what-must-be-cited/31672):
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> Sorry if this is not the right place, but community seems to be the category that better fit this question. I am sending a conference paper that has a very strict page limit, they are 10 pages including the references. I have cited about five papers on my subject, and three more because of Julia, JuMP, and Gurobi. The citing format is kind space-wasting and if I removed the three citations I could avoid removing one or two paragraphs. My question is, what must be cited? I have no problem citing…

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> [@Allowing a package to be cited](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allowing-a-package-to-be-cited/73522):
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> Any thoughts here on what are currently the best options to allow people to cite a package that you have created? I know of Zenodo Pros Easy and also stores the code. Cons Is mostly ignored by Google Scholar. Preprint repository such as arXiv Pros Reasonably easy Cons Need to write a LaTeX document LaTeX, HTML or PDF document. Peer-reviewed publication Pros Looks nice Cons Takes long Book Obvious pro’s and con’s. I mention this because, for example, ggplot2 does this. EDIT: R…

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