<div dir="ltr">I think a default <span style="font-size:12.8px">addition in the </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Acknowledgements, with a citation, (because it's important for automatic scholar tools, like G.Scholar or H-factor calculations...) would probably be the best combination. Indeed, something like : </span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">  </span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">"</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">The author(s) thank the contributors of Matplotlib [</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Monaco,Menlo,Consolas,'Courier New',monospace;font-size:0.9em;letter-spacing:0.015em;line-height:17.64px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Hunter:2007]</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> for making the software freely available."</span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-16 23:53 GMT+01:00 Kathleen Tacina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathleen.m.tacina@nasa.gov" target="_blank">kathleen.m.tacina@nasa.gov</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've occasionally put software like matplotlib in the Acknowledgements section, and included a reference there.<br>
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I wasn't aware of \nocite, I may use it in the future.<br>
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Re: matplotlib at LIGO/GW observation<br>
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