The CF home page should say how to cite CF

[lhmarsden]

I recall that there is now a DOI for CF v1.11 but I haven't been able to find it on the website nor in the conventions document. There should perhaps be a "How to cite CF" button on the website (or similar) as well as something in the conventions document.

In the meantime, could someone please provide me with the recommended citation? I am making final touches to an article I would like to submit soon.

[sadielbartholomew]

I agree that this is far from transparent (though I appreciate the DOI is a work in progress and it is likely intended to be clarified much further after that is sorted) but is an important and common question anyone might wonder about.

For the above reasons I also think it would be good to add this ('How do I cite CF?') as a question under the FAQs page and then link that to the button or otherwise which provides the relevant citation or related information.

[JonathanGregory]

Dear Luke and Sadie

CF 1.12 (coming soon) will have a statement at the front saying how to cite it. This is being addressed in conventions issue 513. CF 1.11 has DOI 10.5281/zenodo.11288138. On that page, it says how CF 1.11 can be cited. I hope that helps.

I agree that this information should be on the CF home page as well, as I'm sure that has been discussed somewhere, but I can't find it. In case we don't already have an issue about that, I'll change the title of this one for that purpose. It's a good idea to put it in the FAQ as well.

Best wishes

Jonathan

[lhmarsden]

Thanks, Jonathan, This is very help.

Luke