# How to cite SHOP

SHOP is actively used in industrial operational setting every day, but is also used for research by SINTEF Energy Research and it's partners. If you use SHOP in your own research, please cite the relevant SHOP papers listed below.

## General citation

For a general citation about SHOP and the SHOP core, please cite {cite}`Skjelbred2020` and {cite}`Kong2020`. 

Bibtex entries:

```
@article{Skjelbred2020,
   title = {Dynamic incorporation of nonlinearity into MILP formulation for short-term hydro scheduling},
   author = {Hans Ivar Skjelbred and Jiehong Kong and Olav Bjarte Fosso},
   journal = {International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems},
   publisher = {Elsevier},
   doi = {10.1016/J.IJEPES.2019.105530},
   month = {3},
   year = {2020},
   pages = {105530},
   volume = {116}
}
```

```
@article{Kong2020,
   title = {An overview on formulations and optimization methods for the unit-based short-term hydro scheduling problem},
   author = {Jiehong Kong and Hans Ivar Skjelbred and Olav Bjarte Fosso},
   journal = {Electric Power Systems Research},
   publisher = {Elsevier},
   doi = {10.1016/J.EPSR.2019.106027},
   month = {1},
   year = {2020},
   pages = {106027},
   volume = {178}
}
```

## Best Profit
To cite use of the Best Profit functionality, please cite {cite}`Skjelbred2017a`.

Bibtex entry:

```
@article{Skjelbred2017a,
   title = {Operational use of marginal cost curves for hydropower plants as decision support in real-time balancing markets},
   author = {Hans Ivar Skjelbred and Jiehong Kong and Tellef Juell Larsen and Fredd Kristiansen},
   journal = {International Conference on the European Energy Market, EEM},
   publisher = {IEEE},
   doi = {10.1109/EEM.2017.7981875},
   month = {7},
   year = {2017},
}
```

## The SHOP Simulator
To cite the SHOP Simulator, please cite {cite}`Skjelbred2018`.

Bibtex entry:

```
@article{Skjelbred2018,
   title = {Operational hydropower simulation in cascaded river systems for intraday re-planning},
   author = {Hans Ivar Skjelbred and Jiehong Kong},
   journal = {20th Power Systems Computation Conference, PSCC 2018},
   publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.},
   doi = {10.23919/PSCC.2018.8442510},
   month = {8},
   year = {2018}
}
```