# How to cite Fortran-lang.discourse in BibTex?
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**Created:** [March 17, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/how-to-cite-fortran-lang-discourse-in-bibtex/2996 "2022-03-17T03:14:42Z")
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### Author:  [@CRquantum](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/CRquantum)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/how-to-cite-fortran-lang-discourse-in-bibtex/2996/1 "2022-03-17T03:14:42Z")
Just a quick question, if I were to cite here, Fortran-lang.discourse, what should I write in the BibTex source?
In short, how to cite here?
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@shahmoradi](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/shahmoradi)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/how-to-cite-fortran-lang-discourse-in-bibtex/2996/2 "2022-03-17T03:47:55Z")
The best is likely to cite Milan et al. arxiv paper: [[2109.07382] Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Community](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07382)
if it is not published in a journal yet.
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### Author:  [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2022, 7:12am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/how-to-cite-fortran-lang-discourse-in-bibtex/2996/3 "2022-03-17T07:12:53Z")
And/or the community paper “The State of Fortran”, just available in early access here:
> **[The State of Fortran](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9736688)**
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> A community of developers has formed to modernize the Fortran ecosystem. In this article, we describe the high-level features of Fortran that continue to make it a good choice for scientists and engineers in the 21st century. Ongoing efforts include...
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### Author:  [@milancurcic](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/milancurcic)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/how-to-cite-fortran-lang-discourse-in-bibtex/2996/4 "2022-03-28T17:48:23Z")
If you intend to cite a specific discussion or information posted in one of the Fortran Discourse threads, then you should cite that specific thread or post. I think that would be a `misc` entry.
If you’re discussing Fortran Discourse as a whole, it’s probably most appropriate to cite the website as a whole, also under a `misc` category, and the “State of Fortran” paper.
If you’re citing broader Fortran-lang efforts, cite the “State of Fortran” paper. You can also cite both “State of Fortran” and “Toward modern tooling” papers, but the former should take priority.
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### Author:  [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/how-to-cite-fortran-lang-discourse-in-bibtex/2996/5 "2022-03-30T07:16:56Z")
> [@vmagnin](#):
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> And/or the community paper “The State of Fortran”, just available in early access here:
And @rgoswami just put the PDF on arXiv:
> **[The State of Fortran](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15110)**
>
> A community of developers has formed to modernize the Fortran ecosystem. In this article, we describe the high-level features of Fortran that continue to make it a good choice for scientists and engineers in the 21st century. Ongoing efforts include...