cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you think it is appropriate, you may consider paying us back by including our latest article in the reference list of your future publications that will benefit from the availability of GMT."
title: "The Generic Mapping Tools Version 6"
authors:
- family-names: Wessel
  given-names: Paul
  affiliation: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5708-7336
- family-names: "Luis"
  given-names: "Joaquim"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9035-4069"
- family-names: "Uieda"
  given-names: "Leonardo"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-9515"
- family-names: "Scharroo"
  given-names: "Remko"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-131X"
- family-names: "Wobbe"
  given-names: "Florian"
- family-names: "Smith"
  given-names: "Walter"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8814-015X"
- family-names: "Tian"
  given-names: "Dongdong"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7967-1197"
- family-names: "Jones"
  given-names: "Max"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0180-8928"
- family-names: "Esteban"
  given-names: "Federico"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0641-7371"
- family-names: "Fröhlich"
  given-names: "Yvonne"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8566-0619"
version: 6.6.0
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16448627
date-released: 2025-07-26
license: LGPL-3.0-or-later
repository-code: "https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt"
type: software
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  authors:
  - family-names: "Wessel"
    given-names: "Paul"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5708-7336"
  - family-names: "Luis"
    given-names: "Joaquim"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9035-4069"
  - family-names: "Uieda"
    given-names: "Leonardo"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-9515"
  - family-names: "Scharroo"
    given-names: "Remko"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-131X"
  - family-names: "Wobbe"
    given-names: "Florian"
  - family-names: "Smith"
    given-names: "Walter"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8814-015X"
  - family-names: "Tian"
    given-names: "Dongdong"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7967-1197"
  doi: "10.1029/2019GC008515"
  journal: "Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems"
  start: 5556
  end: 5564
  title: "The Generic Mapping Tools version 6"
  issue: 11
  volume: 20
  year: 2019
