.. _acknowledging:

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Acknowledging ``ndcube``
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If you use ``ndcube``, we kindly ask you to cite the following references in you publications:

* Ryan, Mumford et al., ndcube: Manipulating N-dimensional Astronomical Data in Python, Journal of Open Source Software, 2023a, DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05296
* Ryan, Mumford et al., A Unified Framework for Manipulating N-dimensional Astronomical Data and Coordinate Transformations in Python: The NDCube 2 & Astropy APE-14 WCS APIs, Astrophysical Journal, 2023b, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ace0bd

Citing these references helps to spread awareness of ``ndcube``'s capabilities and philosophy and
gives some credit to those who have volunteered their time in making ``ndcube`` possible.
To learn how to become part of the ``ndcube`` project, see :ref:`contributing`.

You may also like to include the `ndcube logo`_ in your presentations. This helps to publicise
``ndcube`` to others who might find it helpful in their work.

.. _ndcube logo: https://github.com/sunpy/ndcube/tree/ee94395cda5c8348a33bd1f9ff75fab976bdc66f/docs/logo
