To cite scs in publications use:

Brendan O, Eric C, Neal P, Stephen B (2016). “Operator Splitting for Conic Optimization via Homogeneous Self-Dual Embedding.” Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 169(3), 1042–1068. doi: 10.1007/s10957-016-0892-3, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-016-0892-3.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {Operator Splitting for Conic Optimization via Homogeneous
      Self-Dual Embedding},
    author = {O'Donoghue Brendan and Chu Eric and Parikh Neal and Boyd
      Stephen},
    journal = {Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications},
    year = {2016},
    month = {Jun},
    day = {01},
    volume = {169},
    number = {3},
    pages = {1042--1068},
    doi = {10.1007/s10957-016-0892-3},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-016-0892-3},
  }