# Citation/acknowledgement to First Look images

**URL:** <https://www.rubin.community/t/citation-acknowledgement-to-first-look-images/10982>\
**Category:** Data Products\
**Created:** [September 19, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/citation-acknowledgement-to-first-look-images/10982 "2025-09-19T21:03:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![romanow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/romanow/32/3288_2.png) [@romanow](https://www.rubin.community/u/romanow)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/citation-acknowledgement-to-first-look-images/10982/1 "2025-09-19T21:03:05Z")

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Are there any guidelines to citations and acknowledgements for use of the First Look imaging in a paper?  
Should this tag be used?  
\facilities{Rubin:Simonyi(LSSTCam)}  
Presumably there is no data DOI to cite yet…

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**Author:** ![ChristinaWilliams](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/christinawilliams/32/2227_2.png) [@ChristinaWilliams](https://www.rubin.community/u/ChristinaWilliams)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/citation-acknowledgement-to-first-look-images/10982/2 "2025-09-19T23:46:31Z")

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Hi Aaron, that’s great news that you’ve used the Rubin First Look images for a paper, congratulations.There is no DOI for the images released as part of First Look, but that facilities code you have is correct. In addition, the DOI for citing LSSTCam (at [lsstcam.lsst.io](http://lsstcam.lsst.io/)) and [the LSST Science Pipelines citation](https://pipelines.lsst.io/#citing-and-acknowledging-the-lsst-science-pipelines) would be appropriate, too.If you show a copy of the RFL images in your paper I think the [Media Use Policy](http://rubinobservatory.org/gallery/media-policy) applies, and the credit line should be “RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA.”