Provide citation information in each production run?

[orelgueta]

The various software packages (CORSIKA, sim_telarray) and models (QGSJet) print out the citation information in the log file. Now that simtools includes various hadronic interaction models, I thought that it might be nice if part of the output from each production run, simtools provides a file collecting the citation information of every package used in this production (including simtools itself). It can be also part of the log file instead, but just all collected in one place so it's easy to find.

This is far from important or urgent and is just a suggestion.

[GernotMaier]

But this is in the log file, isn't it? We keep all CORSIKA log files, so the information is there?

[orelgueta]

Yes, it is all in the log file (assuming other hadronic models do it as well). However, it would be nice to extract that information into an easy to read place. Plus, the sim_telarray and simtools references are not printed in the log files.

As mentioned, this is far from important, just a nice convenient user feature that I thought of yesterday as I extracted some references from the log file and others elsewhere.