As in many open source projects, the many authors of ASPECT have spent weeks, months, or years of their academic lives contributing to the development of this code. Consequently, publications based on ASPECT should cite the relevant papers that describe the intellectual contributions that have flown into ASPECT.

This page helps you in determining which papers to cite.


Step 1: Feature Selection

Select the ASPECT version used for your computations and specific features that you used. Depending on your choice, different papers will be listed below. If you came to this page with a link from the output of an ASPECT computation, the boxes should have been populated already.



   

Step 2: How to cite

Use the following text within your publications to cite ASPECT:

Computations were done using the ASPECT code version 3.0.0, see \cite{heister:etal:2017,kronbichler:etal:2012,aspect-doi-v3.0.0,aspectmanual}.


See below for the details about these papers.

Step 3: Data Availability

We strongly recommend making your data available for reproducibilty and replicability. Consider depositing your data (code, parameter files, data, log files, ...) in an approved repository, which will assign an identifier (e.g. a DOI) and enable citation of your data. See geodynamics.org software publishing guidance.
Then add the following to your data availability statement:

The code modifications, parameter, data, and log files used for the models in the study are available at DOI (Authors X, Y, Z) under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

ASPECT version 3.0.0, \cite{heister:etal:2017,kronbichler:etal:2012,aspect-doi-v3.0.0,aspectmanual}}) used in these computations is freely available under the GPL v2.0 or later license through its software landing page https://geodynamics.org/resources/aspect or https://aspect.geodynamics.org and is being actively developed on GitHub and can be accessed via https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect.

Step 4: Acknowledgements

Please consider using the following text in your Acknowledgements section:

We thank the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (geodynamics.org) which is funded by the National Science Foundation under award EAR-0949446 and EAR-1550901 for supporting the development of ASPECT.

Step 5: Add the following papers to your list of references

The following paper describe all aspects of the methods you used in your ASPECT runs, using your selection of features above. The canonical reference for ASPECT is the first publication listed here, but please consider citing all the references below:

Timo Heister, Juliane Dannberg, Rene Gassmöller, and Wolfgang Bangerth. 2017. “High Accuracy Mantle Convection Simulation through Modern Numerical Methods – II: Realistic Models and Problems.” Geophysical Journal International 210 (2) (May 9): 833–851. doi:10.1093/gji/ggx195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx195.

Martin Kronbichler, Timo Heister, and Wolfgang Bangerth. 2012. “High Accuracy Mantle Convection Simulation through Modern Numerical Methods.” Geophysical Journal International 191 (1) (August 21): 12–29. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246x.2012.05609.x. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05609.x.

Wolfgang Bangerth, Juliane Dannberg, Menno Fraters, Rene Gassmoeller, Anne Glerum, Timo Heister, Robert Myhill, and John Naliboff. 2024. <i>ASPECT v3.0.0</i> (version v3.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14371679.

Bangerth, Wolfgang, Juliane Dannberg, Menno Fraters, Rene Gassmoeller, Anne Glerum, Timo Heister, Robert Myhill, and John Naliboff. 2024. “ASPECT: Advanced Solver for Planetary Evolution, Convection, and Tectonics, User Manual.” <i>Figshare</i>. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.4865333.


The bibtex data for these papers is as follows:

@article{heister:etal:2017,
  title                    = {High Accuracy Mantle Convection Simulation through Modern Numerical Methods.
                              {II}: {R}ealistic Models and Problems},
  author                   = {Heister, Timo and Dannberg, Juliane and
                              Gassm{\"o}ller, Rene and Bangerth, Wolfgang},
  journal                  = {Geophysical Journal International},
  year                     = {2017},
  number                   = {2},
  pages                    = {833-851},
  volume                   = {210},
  DOI                      = {10.1093/gji/ggx195},
  URL                      = {https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx195}
}

@Article{kronbichler:etal:2012,
  Title   = {High Accuracy Mantle Convection Simulation through Modern Numerical Methods},
  Author  = {M. Kronbichler and T. Heister and W. Bangerth},
  Journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
  Year    = {2012},
  Pages   = {12-29},
  Volume  = {191},
  doi     = {10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05609.x},
  url     = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05609.x}
}

@software{aspect-doi-v3.0.0,
  author       = {Wolfgang Bangerth and
                  Juliane Dannberg and
                  Menno Fraters and
                  Rene Gassmoeller and
                  Anne Glerum and
                  Timo Heister and
                  Robert Myhill and
                  John Naliboff},
  title        = {ASPECT v3.0.0},
  month        = dec,
  year         = 2024,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v3.0.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.14371679},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14371679}
}

@misc{aspectmanual,
  title         = {{{ASPECT}: Advanced Solver for Planetary Evolution, Convection, and Tectonics, User Manual}},
  author        = {Bangerth, Wolfgang and Dannberg, Juliane and Fraters, Menno and Gassmoeller, Rene and Glerum, Anne and Heister, Timo and Myhill, Robert and Naliboff, John},
  year          = {2024},
  month         = dec,
  DOI           = {10.6084/m9.figshare.4865333},
  URL           = {https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4865333}
}

A link with your selection is available at:
https://aspect.geodynamics.org/citing.html?ver=3.0.0