Publication credit

All pipeline publications and presentations, or those that describe pipelines, should give attribution to the nf-core community.

All nf-core pipeline publications and presentations should cite The nf-core framework for community-curated bioinformatics pipelines:

Ewels, P.A., Peltzer, A., Fillinger, S. et al. The nf-core framework for community-curated bioinformatics pipelines. Nat Biotechnol 38, 276–278 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0439-x

At a minimum, the nf-core community should be thanked in the acknowledgment section. For example, the acknowledgement from the nf-core/clipseq) preprint:

We would also like to thank the nf-core team, in particular Harshil Patel, Phil Ewels and Maxime Garcia, for welcoming us to the nf-core community and their assistance in reviewing and releasing the pipeline. We would also like to thank the nf-core community for developing the nf-core infrastructure and resources for Nextflow pipelines. A full list of nf-core community members is available at https://nf-co.re/community.

Optionally, the nf-core community can be included as a consortium co-author. This option is preferred when a pipeline has made extensive use of existing nf-core pipeline components (e.g., modules and subworkflows) written by other community members who were not directly involved in the pipeline itself. For example, see hgtseq: A Standard Pipeline to Study Horizontal Gene Transfer.

If members of the nf-core community have provided significant input to the creation or maintenance of a pipeline, please consider adding them as coauthors on the pipeline publication or presentation.

If your pipeline publication or presentation is an extension of a community pipeline, please discuss authorship with the main developers.

See Publications for more examples of nf-core and nf-core pipeline publications.