How to cite BornAgain

Generic reference

The canonical reference for BornAgain is the journal article:

Gennady Pospelov, Walter Van Herck, Jan Burle, Juan M. Carmona Loaiza, Céline Durniak, Jonathan M. Fisher, Marina Ganeva, Dmitry Yurov and Joachim Wuttke:
BornAgain: software for simulating and fitting grazing-incidence small- angle scattering.
J. Appl. Cryst. 53, 262–276 (2020)

When using release 1.17 or later, also cite the update

Ammar Nejati, Mikhail Svechnikov and Joachim Wuttke:
BornAgain, software for GISAS and reflectometry: Releases 1.17 to 20.
EPJ Web Conf. 286, 06004 (2023)

Use of the software should additionally be documented by citing a specific version thereof:

BornAgain — Software for simulating and fitting X-ray and neutron small-angle scattering at grazing incidence, version ⟨version_number⟩ (⟨release_date⟩), https://www.bornagainproject.org

Special papers

To be cited in special context only.

Software engineering principles

J. Wuttke, S. Cottrell, M. A. Gonzalez, A. Kaestner, A. Markvardsen, T. H. Rod, P. Rozyczko, G. Vardanyan:
Guidelines for collaborative development of sustainable data treatment software.
J. Neutron Res. 24, 33-72 (2022)

Polyhedral form factors

Joachim Wuttke:
Numerically stable form factor of any polygon and polyhedron.
J. Appl. Cryst. 54, 580-587 (2021)