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feature: Adds details on using CITATION.cff #1021

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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions episodes/12-citation.md
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Expand Up @@ -52,10 +52,19 @@ There is also an [`@software{...`](https://www.google.com/search?q=git+citation+
no "umbrella" citation like a paper or book exists for the project you want to
make citable.

Finally you may wish to include citation information in a [Citation File Format
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I find this a little vague. "you may wish" why exactly? What is the difference compared to CITATION.txt?

(`CITATION.cff`)](https://citation-file-format.github.io/) which are standardized human and machine readable citation
information for software and datasets. If you host your repository on GitHub this information is automatically linked
and rendered on the repository page and a BibTeX snippet is provided which users can copy and paste making it easy for
your project to be cited. Further there is integration with both Zenodo and Zotero.
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Finally you may wish to include citation information in a [Citation File Format
(`CITATION.cff`)](https://citation-file-format.github.io/) which are standardized human and machine readable citation
information for software and datasets. If you host your repository on GitHub this information is automatically linked
and rendered on the repository page and a BibTeX snippet is provided which users can copy and paste making it easy for
your project to be cited. Further there is integration with both Zenodo and Zotero.
Finally, you may wish to include citation information in a [Citation File Format
(`CITATION.cff`)](https://citation-file-format.github.io/). CFF files are standardized human and machine readable citation
information files for software and datasets. If you host your repository on GitHub, this information is automatically linked
and rendered on the repository page and a BibTeX snippet is provided, which users can copy and paste, making it easy for
your project to be cited. Further, integration with both Zenodo and Zotero is supported.

I added a few commas and tried to improve the flow.


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A [chapter of The Turing Way](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/communication/citable/citable-cite#citing-software) provides more detail on how you can use CFF files to make your software citable.

You can use the [cff-init](https://citation-file-format.github.io/cff-initializer-javascript/#/) website to easily
create and update a `CITATION.cff` file.

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If the format is very different, should we provide an example of a cff file as well?

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- Add a CITATION file to a repository to explain how you want your work cited.

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