# Supporting Astronomy's Software Authors
The components that supplement this project contain documents related to the below efforts.
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### Credit Lost: Two Decades of Software Citation in Astronomy
A case study analyzing historical software citation practices in Astronomy.
- [ApJS Manuscript PDF](https://mfr.osf.io/render?url=https://osf.io/dukjy/?direct%26mode=render%26action=download%26mode=render)
Code associated with this case study is archived on Zenodo.
[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3530867)
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### Copyright Guide for Scientific Software
December 2019
A brief copyright guide on scientific software. This guide covers how to make it easier for others to use your software and how to build on the software that others have written.
[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3581326)
This guide is an affiliated effort of the [Software Preservation Network](https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/).
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### Citing Astronomy Software: Inline Text Examples
July 2019
[AstroBetter post](https://www.astrobetter.com/blog/2019/07/01/citing-astronomy-software-inline-text-examples/) with a [companion overleaf document](https://www.overleaf.com/read/cnqjkkmvgpnj) to help astronomers receive credit for their code and give credit to others.
Archival copy of this blog post: [perma.cc/DS73-5BZE](https://perma.cc/DS73-5BZE)
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### Software Citation Implementation Challenges
May 2019
An update on software citation compiled by the [FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group](https://www.force11.org/group/software-citation-implementation-working-group):
Katz, D. S., Bouquin, D., Chue Hong, N. P., Hausman, J., Jones, C., Chivvis, D., … Zhang, Q. (2019). Software Citation Implementation Challenges. [arXiv:1905.08674](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08674)
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### Curating Jupyter Notebooks: A Primer
March 2019
Guide is meant to inform curatorial practices around Jupyter Notebooks and support the development of resources to ensure long-term availability of software in curated archival repositories.
[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2591580)
This guide is part of a collection of primers published by the [Data Curation Network](https://sites.psu.edu/dcnworkshops/primers/).
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### Software Citation in Astronomy: A White Paper
March 2018
This [white paper](https://github.com/CfA-Library/Cite_Astro_Software/blob/master/whitepaper_2018.md) summarizes issues impacting software citation implementation in astronomy as discussed at [AAS 231](https://aas.org/meetings/aas231).
[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1473408)
The white paper was also reposted by [Astronomy Computing Today](https://astrocompute.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/software-citation-implementation-in-astronomy/) and [Generation R](https://doi.org/10.25815/3H8N-G736).
