# About citing the Itensor library in a paper

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**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://itensor.discourse.group/t/about-citing-the-itensor-library-in-a-paper/625 "2023-02-03T06:59:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![zz123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b5e925/32.png) [@zz123](https://itensor.discourse.group/u/zz123)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://itensor.discourse.group/t/about-citing-the-itensor-library-in-a-paper/625/1 "2023-02-03T06:59:44Z")

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Hi there,  
I’ve a quick non-technical question. I used Itensor in one of my recent papers (itensor helps a lot!), and I cite it exactly as this link said “[ITensor](http://itensor.org/docs.cgi?page=tutorials/citing)”. But I just receive comments from a PR series editor, and he asked me to provided the volume of this paper _“The ITensor Software Library for Tensor Network Calculations”._ I’ve googled several times but still couldn’t find it… so just wondering does this paper really have a volume information?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![miles](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/itensor.discourse.group/miles/32/6_2.png) [@miles](https://itensor.discourse.group/u/miles)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://itensor.discourse.group/t/about-citing-the-itensor-library-in-a-paper/625/2 "2023-02-03T14:37:41Z")

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Thanks for the question – it’s a good question.

I think it is safe to assume that the volume is Volume 1 for the ITensor paper. It is in SciPost Codebases which is a very new journal of SciPost. If you’d like, I can contact the editor who I know to confirm this guess though.

Here’s my reasoning: one of the journals of SciPost which has been around much longer is “SciPost Physics”. If you click on [this link](https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys) you can click on the Issues tab and see that there are many issues divided up into volumes.

On the other hand, the [SciPost Physics Codebases](https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb) journal doesn’t have the Issues tab yet, so I assume from that that there is only one (incomplete) issue so far and that there haven’t been enough issues yet to form a complete volume. So the eventual volume of the current publications will probably be Volume 1.

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**Author:** ![miles](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/itensor.discourse.group/miles/32/6_2.png) [@miles](https://itensor.discourse.group/u/miles)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://itensor.discourse.group/t/about-citing-the-itensor-library-in-a-paper/625/3 "2023-02-03T14:38:04Z")

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Glad to hear ITensor has been helping you a lot by the way!

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**Author:** ![zz123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b5e925/32.png) [@zz123](https://itensor.discourse.group/u/zz123)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://itensor.discourse.group/t/about-citing-the-itensor-library-in-a-paper/625/4 "2023-02-03T19:28:44Z")

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Thanks for your detailed explanation! I’ll add Vol 1 to my citation. Have a great weekend!