Citing Mergen

If you use Mergen in academic work, please cite the software.

Text citation

Canbay, A. C. (2026). Mergen: Multi-dimensional Experimental Run GENerator (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21420075

BibTeX

@software{canbay2026mergen,
  author  = {Canbay, Ali Can},
  title   = {Mergen: Multi-dimensional Experimental Run GENerator},
  year    = {2026},
  version = {0.1.0},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.21420075},
  url     = {https://github.com/acanbay/mergen}
}

Machine-readable metadata

The repository root contains a CITATION.cff file with the same information in the Citation File Format. GitHub renders it under the “Cite this repository” button, and reference managers can import it directly.

The version DOI above always points to release 0.1.0. To cite Mergen as a whole, independent of version, use the concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21420074, which always resolves to the latest release.

When citing a specific analysis, please also record the Mergen version and the random seed used, so the design can be reproduced exactly.