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[Ghislain Vaillant]

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Author: Avtech Scientific <AvtechScientific at users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 10 00:40:43 2015 +0300

    Citing info
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 Optional [commercial license](http://asl.org.il/licensing) is available for closed-source ventures wishing to make a financial contribution to the development of ASL.
 
+## Author attributions
+
+If ASL is used for research that will be published or otherwise publicly distributed, we kindly ask that this fact is mentioned.
+
+The reference to ASL may be in an acknowledgment section, in a phrase such as the following:
+
+```
+"This work benefited from the use of the Advanced Simulation Library™ (ASL),
+ an open source multiphysics simulation software package developed
+ by Avtech Scientific and available at <http://asl.org.il>."
+```
+
+To cite ASL in publications please adopt the following:
+
+_ASL: Advanced Simulation Library™, an open source multiphysics simulation software package._[^1] Version 0.1.5.[^2] 2015-08-01.[^3] <http://asl.org.il>.[^4] Avtech Scientific. Modiin Illit, Israel.
+
+[^1]: Additionally any sub-routines that were used may be specified.
+[^2]: Version number or commit hash (in the latter case write: Commit 794e49160c089c18a3b455e48bab6ad7c28bb685)
+[^3]: Release or commit date.
+[^4]: The URL should be an active hyperlink wherever technically possible.
+
 ## Media files
 
 Some examples require input files (like .vti or .stl) that can be found in `examples/input_data`.

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