CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use the labscript suite to control your experiment or perform analysis, please cite the article from preferred-citation and the software itself."
title: The labscript suite
authors:
  - name: "The labscript-suite development team"
abstract: "A powerful and extensible framework for experiment composition, control, execution, and analysis that implements repeated, parameterised, hardware-time experiments."
keywords:
  - research
  - "experiment composition"
  - "experiment control"
  - "experiment analysis"
  - "quantum science"
  - "quantum engineering"
  - hardware-timed
license: BSD-2-Clause
repository-code: "https://github.com/labscript-suite"
url: "https://docs.labscriptsuite.org/en/latest/"

references:
- type: software
  authors:
    - family-names: Billington
      given-names: Chris J.
  title: zprocess
  repository-code: "https://github.com/chrisjbillington/zprocess"
- type: software
  authors:
    - family-names: Starkey
      given-names: Philip
    - family-names: Billington
      given-names: Chris J.
  title: qtutils
  repository-code: "https://github.com/philipstarkey/qtutils"
  url: "https://qtutils.readthedocs.io/en/stable/"
- type: software
  authors:
   - family-names: Billington
     given-names: Chris J.
  title: spinapi
  repository-code: "https://github.com/chrisjbillington/spinapi/"
- type: software
  authors:
   - family-names: Cladé
     given-names: Pierre
  title: PyDAQmx
  repository-code: "https://github.com/clade/PyDAQmx"
  url: "https://pythonhosted.org/PyDAQmx/"
- type: software
  authors:
   - family-names: Johnson
     given-names: Peter
   - family-names: Billington
     given-names: Chris J.
  title: pynivision
  repository-code: "https://github.com/chrisjbillington/pynivision"
- type: phdthesis
  authors:
    - family-names: Billington
      given-names: Chris J.
  title: "State-dependent forces in cold quantum gases"
  school: "Monash University"
  year: 2018
  doi: 10.26180/5bd68acaf0696
  scope: "Chapter 4 provides an excellent, detailed overview of the labscript-suite"
- type: phdthesis
  authors:
    - family-names: Starkey
      given-names: Philip
  title: "A software framework for control and automation of precisely timed experiments"
  school: "Monash University"
  year: 2019
  doi: 10.26180/5d1db8ffe29ef
  scope: "This provides an in-depth description of the labscript-suite, circa 2019"

preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: A scripted control system for autonomous hardware-timed experiments
  authors:
    - family-names: Starkey
      given-names: Philip T.
    - family-names: Billington
      given-names: Christopher J.
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-6400"
    - family-names: Johnstone
      given-names: Shaun P.
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4704-9552"
    - family-names: Jasperse
      given-names: M.
    - family-names: Helmerson
      given-names: K.
    - family-names: Turner
      given-names: Lincoln D.
    - family-names: Anderson
      given-names: Russell P.
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4495-7926"
  doi: "10.1063/1.4817213"
  journal: "Review of Scientific Instruments"
  month: 8
  year: 2013
  start: 085111 # page number
  issue: 84