cff-version: 1.2.0
message: 'If Matplotlib contributes to a project that leads to a scientific publication, please acknowledge this fact by citing J. D. Hunter, "Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment", Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 90-95, 2007.'
title: 'Matplotlib: Visualization with Python'
authors:
- name: The Matplotlib Development Team
website: https://matplotlib.org/
type: software
url: 'https://matplotlib.org/'
repository-code: 'https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/'
preferred-citation:
type: article
authors:
- family-names: Hunter
given-names: John D.
title: "Matplotlib: A 2D graphics environment"
year: 2007
date-published: 2007-06-18
journal: Computing in Science & Engineering
volume: 9
issue: 3
start: 90
end: 95
doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2007.55
publisher:
name: IEEE Computer Society
website: 'https://www.computer.org/'
abstract: Matplotlib is a 2D graphics package used for Python for application development, interactive scripting, and publication-quality image generation across user interfaces and operating systems.