Citation File Format

Citation File Format is a scheme for software citation metadata in machine-readable YAML format.

A file CITATION.cff should be stored in the root directory of the software repository.

The content of the file can look like this:

cff-version: "1.1.0"
message: "If you use this tutorial, please cite it as below."
authors:
  -
    family-names: Schiele
    given-names: Veit
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2448-8958"
identifiers:
  -
    type: doi
    value: "10.5281/zenodo.4147287"
keywords:
  - "data-science"
  - jupyter
  - "jupyter-notebooks"
  - "jupyter-kernels"
  - ipython
  - pandas
  - spack
  - uv
  - ipywidgets
  - "ipython-widget"
  - dvc
title: "Jupyter tutorial"
version: "0.8.0"
date-released: 2020-10-08
license: "BSD-3-Clause"
repository-code: "https://github.com/veit/jupyter-tutorial"

You can easily adapt the example above to create your own CITATION.cff file or use the cffinit website.

With cff-validator you have a GitHub action that checks CITATION.cff files with the R package V8.