How to cite cubature?

[Luke-Pratley]

In the case that cubature is used in a project, or to produce results in a publication, how is it best to cite this software?

Also, there are citations for describing the h-adaptive method. Are there similar citations for the p-adaptive method? Currently there is a link to the wikipedia page, is there something more formal that was used to implement the p-adaptive method?

It might be worth updating the readme on these issues.

[pedrohnv]

A DOI can be minted for the repository. See https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/

[stevengj]

I would just cite:

• Steven G. Johnson, Cubature Package, https://github.com/stevengj (accessed ).

or similar depending on your citation style.

There is no special citation for pcubature — it is just "standard" p-adaptive Clenshaw–Curtis along each dimension, which is described in many sources. I'm not sure of a canonical reference (as early as the 1960s there were already multiple papers describing more complicated adaptation schemes that alternate between p-adaptive and h-adaptive steps). Probably cite some textbook.

A DOI would be possible too but I'm not sure how necessary that is — most journal citations don't seem to give DOIs anyway?

[Luke-Pratley]

Thanks, this is good to know for the future. I think using something like Zenodo for a citation and DOI for each release is not a bad idea. It is easy to do and makes it clear what release was used. But, I can see how it might not be necessary.