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
v0.5 one would cite Bradley et al. 2022 with the BibTeX entry
(https://zenodo.org/record/5826359/export/hx):

.. code-block:: text

    @software{larry_bradley_2022_5826359,
    author       = {Larry Bradley and
                    Christoph Deil and
                    Sushobhana Patra and
                    Adam Ginsburg and
                    Thomas Robitaille and
                    Brigitta Sip{\H o}cz and
                    Johannes King and
                    P. L. Lim and
                    Leo Singer and
                    Miguel de Val-Borro and
                    Tim Jenness and
                    Matthieu Baumann and
                    Yash-10 and
                    Axel Donath and
                    Erik Tollerud and
                    Jae-Joon Lee and
                    Katrin Leinweber and
                    Z\`e Vin{\'{\i}}cius},
    title        = {astropy/regions: v0.5},
    month        = jan,
    year         = 2022,
    publisher    = {Zenodo},
    version      = {v0.5},
    doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.5826359},
    url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5826359}
    }
