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2 Attribution

Please be aware that the fact that this program is released as Free Software does not excuse you from scientific propriety, which obligates you to give appropriate credit! If you write a scientific paper describing research that made substantive use of this program, it is your obligation as a scientist to (a) mention the fashion in which this software was used, including the version number, with a citation to the literature, in the Methods section, to allow replication; (b) mention this software in the Acknowledgements section. The appropriate citation is: M.A. de Vries, “Spinner, A classical Monte Carlo spin-lattice simulation program”, www.ccp5.ac.uk (2007). Moreover, as a personal note, I would appreciate it if you would email markadevries@googlemail.com with citations of papers referencing this work so I can mention them to my funding agent.