> <i>CITATION.cff files are plain text files with human- and machine-readable citation information. When we detect a CITATION.cff file in a repository, we use this information to create convenient APA or BibTeX style citation links that can be referenced by others.</i><p><a href="https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle" rel="nofollow">https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle</a> RDFa and JSON-LD can be parsed with a standard Linked Data parser. Looks like YAML-LD requires quoting e.g. "@context": and "@id":<p>From <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/creating-a-repository-on-github/about-citation-files#about-citation-files" rel="nofollow">https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archi...</a> ; in your repo's /CITATION.cff:<p><pre><code> cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
authors:
- family-names: "Lisa"
given-names: "Mona"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000"
- family-names: "Bot"
given-names: "Hew"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000"
title: "My Research Software"
version: 2.0.4
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1234
date-released: 2017-12-18
url: "https://github.com/github/linguist"
</code></pre>
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Ah great! It indeed seems to be enhanced now, as opposed to a few weeks ago when GitHub CEO Nat Friedman announced initial support <a href="https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1420122675813441540" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1420122675813441540</a>. I had used the CFF initializer website <a href="https://citation-file-format.github.io/cff-initializer-javascript/" rel="nofollow">https://citation-file-format.github.io/cff-initializer-javas...</a> to create my CFF file, but GitHub couldn't parse it. Now it's working!
This seems like an attempt to make GitHub stickier, and should be avoided. Just give people BibTeX to copy and paste, and don’t let Microsoft railroad you into using their formats, yet again.