# how to quote the use of Paraview
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-quote-the-use-of-paraview/3449
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 29, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-quote-the-use-of-paraview/3449 "2020-01-29T15:09:14Z")
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### Author:  [@nayla\_salvador](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nayla_salvador)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-quote-the-use-of-paraview/3449/1 "2020-01-29T15:09:15Z")
Hello,
I am finishing a master’s work and I would like to know how to quote the use of Paraview software in the generation of figures, since it is free software.
What should I quote from the software?
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-quote-the-use-of-paraview/3449/2 "2020-01-29T20:20:20Z")
@nayla_salvador, thanks for asking.
If you navigate to the [Publications Page](https://www.paraview.org/publications/) of ParaView’s web site, it gives a couple of publications you can cite to acknowledge ParaView.
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### Author:  [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-quote-the-use-of-paraview/3449/3 "2023-01-02T09:45:58Z")
@Kenneth_Moreland The link is no longer active. I would like to cite ParaView and Catalyst v2. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-quote-the-use-of-paraview/3449/4 "2023-01-03T18:33:46Z")
That’s a great question, @CsatiZoltan. It looks like that page was dropped in a recent redesign. I made [a request to bring it back](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21724).
Until then, here are some references. The reference I usually use for ParaView is
James Ahrens, Berk Geveci, and Charles Law. “ParaView: An End-User Tool for Large Data Visualization.” In _Visualization Handbook_. Elesvier, 2005. ISBN 978-0123875822.
For the original version of Catalyst, I usually use:
Utkarsh Ayachit, Andrew Bauer, Berk Geveci, Patrick O’Leary, Kenneth Moreland, Nathan Fabian, and Jeffrey Mauldin. “ParaView Catalyst: Enabling In Situ Data Analysis and Visualization.” In _Proceedings of the First Workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization (ISAV 2015)_ (pp. 25–29). 2015. DOI 10.1145/2828612.2828624.
This paper describes the Catalyst version 2 redesign:
Utkarsh Ayachit, , Andrew C. Bauer, Ben Boeckel, Berk Geveci, Kenneth Moreland, Patrick O’Leary, and Tom Osika. “Catalyst Revised: Rethinking the ParaView in Situ Analysis and Visualization API.” . In _High Performance Computing_ (pp. 484–494). 2021. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-90539-2\_33.
Here is the BibTeX for all of those publications.
```nohighlight
@InCollection{ParaView,
author = {James Ahrens and Berk Geveci and Charles Law},
booktitle = {Visualization Handbook},
publisher = {Elesvier},
title = {{ParaView}: An End-User Tool for Large Data Visualization},
year = {2005},
note = {{ISBN}~978-0123875822},
}
@InProceedings{Ayachit2015,
author = {Utkarsh Ayachit and Andrew Bauer and Berk Geveci and Patrick O'Leary and Kenneth Moreland and Nathan Fabian and Jeffrey Mauldin},
title = {ParaView Catalyst: Enabling In Situ Data Analysis and Visualization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization (ISAV 2015)},
year = {2015},
pages = {25--29},
month = {November},
doi = {10.1145/2828612.2828624},
}
@InProceedings{Ayachit2021,
author = {Ayachit, Utkarsh and Bauer, Andrew C. and Boeckel, Ben and Geveci, Berk and Moreland, Kenneth and O'Leary, Patrick and Osika, Tom},
booktitle = {High Performance Computing},
title = {Catalyst Revised: Rethinking the ParaView in Situ Analysis and Visualization {API}},
year = {2021},
month = jun,
pages = {484--494},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-90539-2_33},
}
```
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-quote-the-use-of-paraview/3449/5 "2023-01-03T19:23:04Z")
Hi, thanks for bringing this to our attention. Indeed, we need to bring back this list of publications. I’ll get the ball rolling on that.
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### Author:  [@jkulesza](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jkulesza)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-quote-the-use-of-paraview/3449/6 "2023-01-04T19:43:59Z")
Minor remark: there is a typo in the `publisher` field of the `ParaView` citation.
For additional metadata, I would propose as an alternative:
```auto
@InBook{ParaView,
author = {Ahrens, James and Geveci, Berk and Law, Charles},
chapter = {{ParaView}: An End-User Tool for Large Data Visualization},
editor = {Hansen, Charles D. and Johnson, Christopher R.},
pages = {717--731},
publisher = {Elsevier Inc.},
title = {Visualization Handbook},
year = {2005},
address = {Burlington, MA, USA},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123875822/visualization-handbook},
}
```
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-quote-the-use-of-paraview/3449/7 "2023-02-02T18:12:36Z")
We have added back the publications to cite ParaView as well as publications that _cite_ ParaView to [https://www.paraview.org/resources/](https://www.paraview.org/resources/).