Cite pyfieldml

If you use pyfieldml in academic work, please cite the software release.

Software citation

The canonical citation metadata lives in CITATION.cff. BibTeX equivalent:

@software{pyfieldml,
  author  = {Chemorion, Francis},
  title   = {pyfieldml: A modern pure-Python implementation of FieldML 0.5 for computational biomechanics},
  year    = {2026},
  url     = {https://github.com/kchemorion/pyfieldml},
  version = {1.0.0},
}

Paper (pending)

A Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) paper is in preparation. Once accepted, the DOI and full citation will be published here.

Citing the underlying FieldML specification

pyfieldml is an implementation of the FieldML 0.5 standard, authored by the Physiome Project / Auckland Bioengineering Institute. Please cite the original FieldML work as well:

@article{fieldml_christie_2009,
  author  = {Christie, G. Richard and Nielsen, Poul M. F. and Blackett, Sean A. and Bradley, Chris P. and Hunter, Peter J.},
  title   = {FieldML: concepts and implementation},
  journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
  volume  = {367},
  number  = {1895},
  pages   = {1869--1884},
  year    = {2009},
  doi     = {10.1098/rsta.2009.0025},
}

Original C++ FieldML-API

The C++ reference implementation we cross-validate against:

@misc{fieldml_api,
  author       = {Little, Caton and Wu, Alan and Christie, Richard and Miller, Andrew},
  title        = {{FieldML-API}: C++ reference implementation},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/kchemorion/FieldML-API}},
  note         = {Auckland Uniservices Ltd},
}