Citing foodspec

If you use foodspec in your research, we kindly ask you to cite:

1. The foodspec software (this package).

Software citation

Citation metadata for the foodspec software is provided in the CITATION.cff file at the root of the repository. Many reference managers and tools can import this file directly.

A provisional human-readable citation is:

Chandrasekar Subramani Narayan, foodspec: A Python toolkit for Raman and FTIR spectroscopy in food science, software version 0.2.0, 2025.

Please update this with the exact release details that you are using.