If you feel it is appropriate, you may consider paying us back by citing our articles on GMT and technical papers on algorithms when you publish papers containing results or illustrations obtained using GMT. When in doubt, please cite the latest paper.
The articles on GMT are:
GMT 6: Wessel, P., Luis, J. F., Uieda, L., Scharroo, R., Wobbe, F., Smith, W. H. F., & Tian, D. (2019). The Generic Mapping Tools version 6. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 5556–5564. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008515
GMT/MATLAB: Wessel, P., & Luis, J. F. (2017). The GMT/MATLAB Toolbox. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18, 811–823, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GC006723
GMT 5: Wessel, P., W. H. F. Smith, R. Scharroo, J. Luis, and F. Wobbe, Generic Mapping Tools: Improved Version Released, EOS Trans. AGU, 94(45), p. 409–410, 2013. doi:10.1002/2013EO450001.
GMT 3.1: Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, New, improved version of Generic Mapping Tools released, EOS Trans. AGU, 79(47), p. 579, 1998. doi:10.1029/98EO00426.
GMT 3.0: Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, New version of the Generic Mapping Tools released, EOS Trans. AGU, 76(33), 329, 1995. doi:10.1029/95EO00198.
GMT 2: Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, Free software helps map and display data, EOS Trans. AGU, 72(41), 445–446, 1991. doi:10.1029/90EO00319.
Some GMT modules are based on algorithms we have developed and published separately, such as:
Kim, S.-S., and P. Wessel, Directional median filtering for
regional-residual separation of bathymetry, Geochem. Geophys.
Geosyst., 9, Q03005, 2008. doi:10.1029/2007GC001850.
[dimfilter]
Luis, J. F. and J. M. Miranda, Reevaluation of magnetic chrons in the
North Atlantic between 35°N and 47°N: Implications for the formation of the
Azores Triple Junction and associated plateau,
J. Geophys. Res., 113, B10105, 2008. doi:10.1029/2007JB005573.
[grdredpol, potential supplement]
Smith, W. H. F., and P. Wessel, Gridding with continuous curvature
splines in tension, Geophysics, 55(3), 293–305, 1990. doi:10.1190/1.1442837.
[surface]
Wessel, P., Tools for analyzing intersecting tracks: The x2sys package, Computers & Geosciences, 36, 348–354, 2010. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2009.05.009. [x2sys supplement]
Wessel, P., A General-purpose Green’s function-based interpolator,
Computers & Geosciences, 35, 1247–1254, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2008.08.012.
[greenspline]
Wessel, P. and J. M. Becker, Interpolation using a generalized
Green’s function for a spherical surface spline in tension, Geophys.
J. Int., 174, 21–28, 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03829.x.
[greenspline]