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 ## Testing
 The FORCE repo should contain several IES tools. For the FORCE tests in "FORCE/tests/integrations_tests" to work, raven, TEAL, and HERON should be under FORCE. The FORCE tests depend on raven libraries which can be activated as follows: "conda activate raven_libraries"
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+## Citing FORCE
+FORCE is included in the U.S. Department of Energy [CODE database](https://www.osti.gov/doecode/biblio/74301), which includes citation guidelines for several citation styles.
+DOI:10.11578/dc.20220511.2