# Citing PolarToolkit

This is research software made by scientists. Citations help us justify the effort that goes into building and maintaining this project.

If you used `PolarToolkit` in your research, please consider citing our paper:

Tankersley, M. D., (2024). PolarToolkit: Python Tools for Convenient, Reproducible, and Open Polar Science. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(100), 6502, [https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06502](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06502)


If you would like to cite the specific version you used, which can improve reproducibility and let users know the state of the software at the time of your analysis, please use the version-specific citation and DOI (available from [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7059091)).