Be sure to mention the release date of the genome assembly used in your work to facilitate the examination of your data by reviewers and readers. If you would like to add a URL to the Genome Browser displaying a specific location or configuration, please use a Session URL. This will ensure all data and settings remain fixed. Please do not include references to our development servers (such as genome-test.soe.ucsc.edu) in published links or URLs.
+We ask that authors cite our latest database update publications +alongside any specific tools used as described below. For an extended list of publications produced by the UCSC Genome Browser group, see our Publications page. It is worth noting that as of April 1, 2020, Genome Browser papers have been cited 37,500 times in the literature. We thank authors for the acknowledgement of our efforts.
UCSC Genome Browser: Kent WJ, Sugnet CW, Furey TS, Roskin KM, Pringle TH, Zahler AM, Haussler D. The human genome browser at UCSC. Genome Res. 2002 Jun;12(6):996-1006.