Acknowledging fcmaker

  1. Only use lower case letters when mentioning fcmaker, and always include the version number. Ideally, you should also include the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) associated with any of the Github releases, e.g.:

    fcmaker 0.3.4: DOI_latest


  1. If you use fcmaker for your observations (and remember that you did so by the time you reach the publication stage!), please cite:

    Vogt, fcmaker: automating the creation of ESO-compliant finding charts for Observing Blocks on p2, Astronomy & Computing, 2018, submitted.

    In fact, a friendly nudge along the following blurb will give due credits to all those that made fcmaker possible in the first place:

    This research has made use of \textsc{fcmaker} (Vogt, 2018), a \textsc{python} module
    to create ESO-compliant finding charts. \textsc{fcmaker} relies on \textsc{matplotlib}
    (Hunter 2007), \textsc{astropy}, a community-developed core \textsc{python} package
    for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration et al., 2013), \textsc{astroplan} (Morris et al.
    2018), \textsc{aplpy}, an open-source plotting package for \textsc{python} (Robitaille 2012),
    and \textsc{montage}, funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number
    ACI-1440620 and previously funded by the National Aeronautics and Space
    Administration’s Earth Science Technology Office, Computation Technologies Project,
    under Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 between NASA and the California Institute
    of Technology. \textsc{fcmaker} uses the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg,
    France. The original description of the VizieR service was published in Ochsenbein (2000).
    \textsc{fcmaker} also makes use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission
    Gaia (\url{https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia}), processed by the Gaia Data Processing
    and Analysis Consortium (DPAC,
    \url{https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium}). Funding for the DPAC has been
    provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the
    Gaia Multilateral Agreement. In particular, \textsc{fcmaker} uses data from the Gaia
    (Gaia Collaboration et al., 2016) Data Release 2 (Gaia Collaboration et al., 2018).