Published August 9, 2021
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Citation File Format
Creators
- 1. German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany
- 2. Netherlands eScience Center
- 3. Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 4. ITS Research IT, University of Manchester
- 5. University of Sussex, Sussex Humanities Lab
Contributors
- 1. Software Heritage
- 2. Software Sustainability Institute, University of Manchester, UK
- 3. University of Tromsø, Norway
- 4. Octiog, Inc., USA
Description
CITATION.cff files are plain text files with human- and machine-readable citation information for software. Code developers can include them in their repositories to let others know how to correctly cite their software. This is the specification for the Citation File Format.
Files
README.md
Additional details
Related works
- Is new version of
- 10.5281/zenodo.4813122 (DOI)
- Is part of
- 10.5281/zenodo.1003149 (DOI)
- Is supplement to
- https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/releases/tag/1.2.0 (URL)
References
- A. M. Smith, D. S. Katz, K. E. Niemeyer, and FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group, "Software citation principles," PeerJ Computer Science, vol. 2, p. e86, Sep. 2016 [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86
- S. Druskat, "Track 2 Lightning Talk: Should CITATION files be standardized?" in Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1), 2017 [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3827058
- R. Wilson, "Encouraging citation of software - introducing CITATION files." 2013 [Online]. Available: https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-09-02-encouraging-citation-software-introducing-citation-files
- O. Ben-Kiki, C. Evans, and I. döt Net, "YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML) Version 1.2. 3rd Edition, Patched at 2009-10-01." 2009 [Online]. Available: http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html
- J.-M. Hufflen, "Names in bibtex and mlBibTeX," TUGboat, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 243–253, Nov. 2006 [Online]. Available: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb27-2/tb87hufflen.pdf