Citation Policy

Citing original sources

When using data from EMAA, it is vital to acknowledge the work and dedication of the EMAA scientific partners who made this resource available. We thus strongly encourage users of EMAA to cite the original articles in which the data were published (text and BibTeX format are available). This recognises and values the data contributions from researchers.

Whenever possible, we kindly request you to also cite the dataset DOIs.

Citing the reference paper

Please cite the latest publication describing EMAA:

A. Faure, A. Bacmann, R. Jacquot, "Excitation of Molecules and Atoms for Astrophysics (EMAA): A spectroscopic and collisional database", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 700, A266 (2025).[https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202554403]

Finally, please include the following sentence in your publication:

”This research has made use of spectroscopic and collisional data from the EMAA database (https://dx.doi.org/10.17178/EMAA). EMAA is supported by the Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (OSUG) (https://ror.org/03vte9x46)”