Descriptron
Copyright 2024-2026 Alex R. Van Dam (ORCID 0000-0002-1966-0338)

This product includes software developed by Alex R. Van Dam
https://github.com/alexrvandam/Descriptron

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE). Under Section
4(d) of that licence, this NOTICE file must be included with any
redistribution of this software or of any work derived from it.

REQUIRED CITATION
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Anyone who uses Descriptron, or any software derived from it (including
descriptron-core, descriptron-vision, descriptron-gui and descriptron-mcp), in
work that is published, presented or distributed must cite:

  1. The software (Descriptron v2):
     Van Dam, A. R. Descriptron (version used). GitHub repository.
     https://github.com/alexrvandam/Descriptron

  2. The first Descriptron paper:
     Van Dam, A. R. & Štarhová Serbina, L. (2026). Descriptron: Artificial
     intelligence for automating taxonomic species descriptions with a
     user-friendly software package. Systematic Entomology, 51(1), e70005.
     https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.70005

  3. Once it is published, the Descriptron v2 paper as well. Its reference
     will be added here and in CITATION.cff on publication.

BibTeX:

@misc{vandam_descriptron_software,
  author       = {Van Dam, Alex R.},
  title        = {Descriptron},
  howpublished = {GitHub repository},
  url          = {https://github.com/alexrvandam/Descriptron}
}

@article{vandam2026descriptron,
  author  = {Van Dam, Alex R. and Štarhová Serbina, Liliya},
  title   = {Descriptron: Artificial intelligence for automating taxonomic species
             descriptions with a user-friendly software package},
  journal = {Systematic Entomology},
  volume  = {51},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {e70005},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.1111/syen.70005}
}

The same information is in CITATION.cff, which GitHub shows as
"Cite this repository".
