.. _citing:

Citation guideline
==================


The 'entropy plateaus' paper
----------------------------

You can find the citation handle for the *entropy plateaus* paper below in ``bibtex`` style.

.. code-block:: bibtex

    @ARTICLE{2025arXiv250505675A,
           author = {{Altamura}, Edoardo and {Kay}, Scott T. and {Schaye}, Joop and {McCarthy}, Ian G. and {Schaller}, Matthieu},
            title = "{Entropy plateaus can emerge from gas replacement at a characteristic halo mass in simulated groups and clusters of galaxies}",
          journal = {arXiv e-prints},
         keywords = {Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics of Galaxies, Computational Physics},
             year = 2025,
            month = may,
              eid = {arXiv:2505.05675},
            pages = {arXiv:2505.05675},
              doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2505.05675},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
           eprint = {2505.05675},
     primaryClass = {astro-ph.CO},
           adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv250505675A},
          adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
    }

.. note::

    Visit the `NASA ADS citation page <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv250505675A/exportcitation>`_ to
    generate a citation handle in other styles.


The 'entropy-core problem' paper
--------------------------------

If you are also using results about the entropy-core problem or results at :math:`z=0` (equiv.
local universe), please also cite
`Altamura et al. (2023) <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.520.3164A>`_ as follows (``bibtex`` below).

.. code-block:: bibtex

   @ARTICLE{2023MNRAS.520.3164A,
           author = {{Altamura}, Edoardo and {Kay}, Scott T. and {Bower}, Richard G. and {Schaller}, Matthieu and {Bah{\'e}}, Yannick M. and {Schaye}, Joop and {Borrow}, Josh and {Towler}, Imogen},
            title = "{EAGLE-like simulation models do not solve the entropy core problem in groups and clusters of galaxies}",
          journal = {\mnras},
         keywords = {hydrodynamics, methods: numerical, software: simulations, galaxies: clusters, galaxies: fundamental parameters, galaxies: groups - tions, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
             year = 2023,
            month = apr,
           volume = {520},
           number = {2},
            pages = {3164-3186},
              doi = {10.1093/mnras/stad342},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
           eprint = {2210.09978},
     primaryClass = {astro-ph.CO},
           adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.520.3164A},
          adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
    }


.. note::

    Visit the `NASA ADS citation page <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.520.3164A/exportcitation>`_ to
    generate a citation handle in other styles.


The PhD thesis
--------------

If using the *topological closure* technique to prepare contamination-free initial initial
conditions for zoom-in cosmological simulations, please cite the following
`Ph.D. thesis <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023PhDT.........8A>`_ (``bibtex`` below).


.. code-block:: bibtex

   @PHDTHESIS{2023PhDT.........8A,
           author = {{Altamura}, Edoardo},
            title = "{Building models of the Universe with hydrodynamic simulations}",
         keywords = {Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Physics - Computational Physics, Physics - Fluid Dynamics},
           school = {University of Manchester, UK},
             year = 2023,
            month = dec,
           adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023PhDT.........8A},
          adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
    }

.. note::

    Visit the `NASA ADS citation page <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023PhDT.........8A/exportcitation>`_ to
    generate a citation handle in other styles.