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. 202X).

where (Bradley et al. 202X) 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.

All Regions versions and citation formats can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5826358. For example, for Regions
v0.6 one would cite Bradley et al. 2022 with the `BibTeX entry
<https://zenodo.org/record/6374572/export/hx>`_:

.. code-block:: text

    @software{larry_bradley_2022_6374572,
    author       = {Larry Bradley and
                    Christoph Deil and
                    Sushobhana Patra and
                    Adam Ginsburg and
                    Thomas Robitaille and
                    Brigitta Sipőcz and
                    Johannes King and
                    P. L. Lim and
                    Derek Homeier and
                    Leo Singer and
                    Miguel de Val-Borro and
                    Tim Jenness and
                    Matthieu Baumann and
                    Yash Gondhalekar and
                    Axel Donath and
                    Erik Tollerud and
                    Jae-Joon Lee and
                    Katrin Leinweber and
                    Zé Vinícius},
    title        = {astropy/regions: v0.6},
    month        = mar,
    year         = 2022,
    publisher    = {Zenodo},
    version      = {v0.6},
    doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.6374572},
    url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6374572}
    }
