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# CITATION v1.2,0 file of the CFF project
# https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/blob/1.2.0/CITATION.cff
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cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use CFF in your research, please cite it using these metadata."
abstract: 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.
authors:
  - family-names: Druskat
    given-names: Stephan
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4925-7248
  - family-names: Spaaks
    given-names: Jurriaan H.
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7064-4069
  - family-names: Chue Hong
    given-names: Neil
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-7606
  - family-names: Haines
    given-names: Robert
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9538-7919
  - family-names: Baker
    given-names: James
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2682-6922
  - family-names: Bliven
    given-names: Spencer
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1200-1698
    email: spencer.bliven@gmail.com
  - family-names: Willighagen
    given-names: Egon
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286
  - family-names: Pérez-Suárez
    given-names: David
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0784-6909
    website: https://dpshelio.github.io
  - family-names: Konovalov
    given-names: Alexander
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5299-3292
title: Citation File Format
version: 1.2.0
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.5281/zenodo.1003149
    description: The concept DOI for the collection containing all versions of the Citation File Format.
  - type: doi
    value: 10.5281/zenodo.5171937
    description: The versioned DOI for the version 1.2.0 of the Citation File Format.
date-released: "2021-08-09"
keywords:
  - citation file format
  - CFF
  - citation files
  - software citation
  - file format
  - YAML
  - software sustainability
  - research software
  - credit
license: "CC-BY-4.0"
references:
  - authors:
      - family-names: Smith
        given-names: Arfon M.
      - family-names: Katz
        given-names: Daniel S.
      - family-names: Niemeyer
        given-names: Kyle E.
      - name: "FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group"
    doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.86
    journal: "PeerJ Computer Science"
    month: 9
    start: e86
    title: "Software citation principles"
    type: article
    volume: 2
    year: 2016
  - authors:
      - family-names: Druskat
        given-names: Stephan
    conference:
        name: "Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)"
    doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3827058
    title: "Track 2 Lightning Talk: Should CITATION files be standardized?"
    type: proceedings
    year: 2017
  - authors:
      - family-names: Wilson
        given-names: Robin
    title: "Encouraging citation of software - introducing CITATION files."
    type: blog
    url: "https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-09-02-encouraging-citation-software-introducing-citation-files"
    year: 2013
  - authors:
      - family-names: Ben-Kiki
        given-names: Oren
      - family-names: Evans
        given-names: Clark
      - family-names: "döt Net"
        given-names: Ingy
    title: "YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML) Version 1.2. 3rd Edition, Patched at 2009-10-01."
    url: "https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html"
    type: standard
    year: 2009
  - authors:
      - family-names: Hufflen
        given-names: Jean-Michel
    collection-title: "Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting"
    end: 253
    month: 11
    number: 2
    start: 243
    title: "Names in bibtex and mlBibTeX"
    url: "https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb27-2/tb87hufflen.pdf"
    type: proceedings
    volume: 27
    year: 2006
