## References Basic references: * {#May1972} [[Peter May]], _The geometry of iterated loop spaces_ ([pdf](http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/BOOKS/gils.pdf)) * {#MarklShniderStasheff} [[Martin Markl]], [[Steve Shnider]], [[Jim Stasheff|James D. Stasheff]], _Operads in algebra, topology and physics_, Math. Surveys and Monographs __96__, Amer. Math. Soc. 2002. * nLab, [operads](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/operad) Examples of operads being used: * [[John Baez]], [[John Foley]], [[Joseph Moeller]], and [[Blake Pollard]], [[Network models]], 2018. [arXiv:1711.00037](https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00037) * [[J.-C. Aval]], [[S. Giraudo]], [[T. Karaboghossian]], and [[A. Tanasa]], [[Graph operads, general construction and natural extensions of canonical operads]], preprint, 2020. [arXiv:1912.06563](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06563) category:mathematical methods [[!redirects operad]] [[!redirects Operads]] [[!redirects operads]]