How to cite/acknowledge the CF convention?

[jypeter]

I have just realized that there is no way to cite or even acknowledge the CF conventions. Or if there is, it is not easy to find it on the CF site.

Should there be some zenodo stuff that can be cited (don't really know how this works), until the time there is a GMD (or other) paper about the CF conventions

And it would be useful to have a standard acknowledgment sentence that people can copy/paste, even if they usually forget about that...

[martinjuckes]

@jypeter : I agree, this would be a very useful step forward, and should not be difficult to implement.

One option would be to put the pdf document into Zenodo, with title and author information, which would then give it a clear standard format citation with a DOI.

Also (in parallel), it would make sense to have a recommended citation text at the front of the convention. In the days of print media that would lead into the idea of arranging the front of the convention in the pdf document somewhat more formally (e.g. front page with title etc, publication information on inside page, followed by index, etc) -- I'm not sure what the equivalent structure is now that the focus is more on the on-line version.

[erget]

This looks stale - I'm closing it but please re-open if relevant!

Might be an interesting input for DOI discussions.

[matt-frey]

Hello, I am working on a project that tries to follow the CF convention. We are now writing a paper and want to cite the CF convention. We have not found a proper citation, but only this closed issue. How should we cite the CF convention? Many thanks.

[davidhassell]

Hello, In the absence of DOIs, which will come eventually, here is the bibtex citation that I currently use

@misc{Eaton:2021,
  title = {{{NetCDF Climate}} and {{Forecast}} ({{CF}}) {{Metadata Conventions v1}}.9},
  publisher = {{CF Conventions Committee}},
  author = {{Eaton}, Brian and {Gregory}, Jonathan and {Drach}, Bob and {Taylor}, Karl and {Hankin}, Steve and {Caron}, John and {Signell}, Rich and {Bentley}, Phil and {Rappa}, Greg and {H{\"o}ck}, Heinke and {Pamment}, Alison and {Juckes}, Martin and {Raspaud}, Martin and {Horne}, Randy and {Whiteaker}, Timothy and {Blodgett}, David and {Zender}, Charlie and {Lee}, Daniel}, and {Hassell}, David and {Snow}, Alan D and {K{\"o}lling}, Tobias and {Allured}, Dave and {Jelenak}, Aleksandar and {S{\o}rensen}, Anders Meier and {Gaultier}, Lucile and {Herl{\'e}dan} Sylvain},
  month = sep,
  year = 2021,
  urldate = {2021-09-10},
  url = {http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.9/cf-conventions.html},
}

(I updated this for the 1.9 authors from what I have used before, so if you use this please check it!)

Another possibility is the CF data model paper: https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/10/4619/2017/gmd-10-4619-2017.html

These are just what I currently use - I'm sure that there are other possibilities.

Thanks, David

[matt-frey]

Hi David, thank you for the quick reply. We use version 1.8, I will adapt accordingly. Best wishes, Matthias.

[davidhassell]

Hi Matthias, in that case you could use my "tried and tested" 1.8 version - the author list is a bit shorted on that one.

@misc{Eaton:2020,
  title = {{{NetCDF Climate}} and {{Forecast}} ({{CF}}) {{Metadata Conventions v1}}.8},
  publisher = {{CF Conventions Committee}},
  author = {{Eaton}, Brian and {Gregory}, Jonathan and {Drach}, Bob and {Taylor}, Karl and {Hankin}, Steve and {Caron}, John and {Signell}, Rich and {Bentley}, Phil and {Rappa}, Greg and {H{\"o}ck}, Heinke and {Pamment}, Alison and {Juckes}, Martin and {Raspaud}, Martin and {Horne}, Randy and {Whiteaker}, Timothy and {Blodgett}, David and {Zender}, Charlie and {Lee}, Daniel},
  month = feb,
  year = 2020,
  urldate = {2020-07-27},
  url = {http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.8/cf-conventions.html},
}

All the best, David

[matt-frey]

Great, thanks! Best wishes, Matthias