Citing pynucastro

Citing pynucastro#

If you use pynucastro, please CITE the both the “2.0” and “3.0” papers and the latest Zenodo DOI. You can also cite the JOSS paper.

Open Journal of Astrophysics (“3.0 paper”)#

@ARTICLE{pynucastro3,
     title = {pynucastro 3: A community library for nuclear astrophysics},
     author = {Chen, Zhi and Bhargava, Khanak and Johnson, Eric T. and
              Lopes, Reth and Rasmussen, Melissa and
              {Smith Clark}, Alexander and Zingale, Michael and
              Boyd, Brendan and Eiden, Kiran and Glosser, Sam and
              Willcox, Don E.},
     journal = {The Open Journal of Astrophysics},
     doi = {10.33232/001c.172549},
     year = {2026},
     month = {oct},
     publisher = {Maynooth Academic Publishing},
     volume = {9},
}

Astrophysical Journal (“2.0 paper”)#

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acbaff

@ARTICLE{pynucastro2,
    title = {pynucastro: A Python Library for Nuclear Astrophysics},
    author = {Alexander I. Smith and Eric T. Johnson and Zhi Chen and
              Kiran Eiden and Donald E. Willcox and Brendan Boyd and
              Lyra Cao and Christopher J. DeGrendele and Michael Zingale},
    journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
    doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/acbaff},
    url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbaff},
    year = {2023},
    month = {apr},
    publisher = {The American Astronomical Society},
    volume = {947},
    number = {2},
    pages = {65},
    abstract = {We describe pynucastro 2.0, an open-source library for
                interactively creating and exploring astrophysical nuclear
                reaction networks.  We demonstrate new methods for
                approximating rates and use detailed balance to create
                reverse rates, show how to build networks and determine
                whether they are appropriate for a particular science
                application, and discuss the changes made to the library over
                the past few years. Finally, we demonstrate the validity of
                the networks produced and share how we use pynucastro
                networks in simulation codes.}
}

JOSS#

https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00588

@article{pynucastro,
    title = "{pynucastro: an interface to nuclear reaction rates
              and code generator for reaction network equations}",
   author = {{Willcox}, D.~E. and {Zingale}, M.},
   journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
   doi = {10.21105/joss.00588},
   url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00588},
   year = 2018,
   volume = 3,
   number = 23,
   pages = 588,
}

Zenodo#

The Zenodo record is: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1202434

The bibtex for the latest version is included below (updated automatically):

@software{pynucastro_development_team_2026_23809246,
  author       = {pynucastro development team and
                  Bhargava, Khanak and
                  Boyd, Brendan and
                  Cao, Lyra and
                  Chen, Zhi and
                  Eiden, Kiran and
                  Glosser, Sam and
                  Johnson, Eric and
                  Li, Xinlong and
                  Lopes, Reth and
                  Rasmussen, Melissa and
                  Smith Clark, Alexander and
                  Willcox, Donald and
                  Zingale, Michael},
  title        = {pynucastro/pynucastro: pynucastro 3.2.0},
  month        = oct,
  year         = 2026,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {3.2.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23809246},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23809246},
}