Citation and attribution in TONTO

Except in the cases listed below, we don't think it is appropriate to cite TONTO in the references to a scientific paper. TONTO is only a software tool used in our scientific work. For example, we don't think it is appropriate to reference Bill Gates if we use a Microsoft mathematical library to generate our results.

It is appropriate to place a footnote reference to TONTO to inform the reader what software was used. This is so that the reader may reproduce the reported results. Reproducibility is critical to the scientific method.

We do believe it is very important to always cite the authors who first described the theories or algorithms which are used by TONTO to do a particular calculation. References to algorithms used in TONTO may be given in this manual, and may be presented as output from some calculations. Use them.

You should cite TONTO as a scientific reference only in cases where it is deserved, including, for example:

If you have contributed code to TONTO, you will be acknowledged as a contributing author in the manual for TONTO. People should cite your work, and not TONTO, if they use the code donated by you to TONTO.