[PR #905] [MERGED] docs: create CITATION.cff #5096

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📋 Pull Request Information

Original PR: https://github.com/semver/semver/pull/905
Author: @elijaholmos
Created: 12/17/2022
Status: ✅ Merged
Merged: 11/5/2025
Merged by: @JohnTitor

Base: master ← Head: citation

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6c801f3 docs: create CITATION.cff
27487d7 Add the semver team to authors

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➕ CITATION.cff (+13 -0)

📄 Description

Closes #912

Hello! 👋

I'm a university student and I recently composed a written report & verbal presentation that directly referenced the Semantic Versioning Specification. As is customary in academia, I was expected to cite my sources in a way that conformed with a particular English formatting and style guide. I looked through both https://github.com/semver/semver and https://github.com/semver/semver.org, but found no written documentation indicating how to properly cite the SemVer spec in my paper. The closest I came was to discovering issue #357 from 2017, which references a Google Scholar link that has since been removed.

GitHub directly supports repository citation files that conform to the Citation File Format standard. Adding a CITATION.cff file to the root of a repository will cause a "Cite this repository" link to appear under the repo description:

Clicking on the text will render a dropdown with a brief message about repository citations, and different formatting options that the viewer can use to cite the repo:

My PR creates a CITATION.cff with information about the original SemVer author, along with the recorded release date of v2.0.0 (according to https://github.com/semver/semver/releases/tag/v2.0.0). Please let me know if any changes should be made to the citation metadata, such as the addition of other authors.

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## 📋 Pull Request Information **Original PR:** https://github.com/semver/semver/pull/905 **Author:** [@elijaholmos](https://github.com/elijaholmos) **Created:** 12/17/2022 **Status:** ✅ Merged **Merged:** 11/5/2025 **Merged by:** [@JohnTitor](https://github.com/JohnTitor) **Base:** `master` ← **Head:** `citation` --- ### 📝 Commits (2) - [`6c801f3`](https://github.com/semver/semver/commit/6c801f323c72c8448ee6dbd4530b54c4e14942fa) docs: create CITATION.cff - [`27487d7`](https://github.com/semver/semver/commit/27487d73b555e71b862216837778f4297225d5c8) Add the semver team to authors ### 📊 Changes **1 file changed** (+13 additions, -0 deletions) <details> <summary>View changed files</summary> ➕ `CITATION.cff` (+13 -0) </details> ### 📄 Description Closes #912 Hello! 👋 I'm a university student and I recently composed a written report & verbal presentation that directly referenced the Semantic Versioning Specification. As is customary in academia, I was expected to cite my sources in a way that conformed with a particular English formatting and style guide. I looked through both https://github.com/semver/semver and https://github.com/semver/semver.org, but found no written documentation indicating how to properly cite the SemVer spec in my paper. The closest I came was to discovering issue #357 from 2017, which references a Google Scholar link that has since been removed. GitHub directly supports repository [citation files](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files) that conform to the [Citation File Format](https://citation-file-format.github.io/) standard. Adding a `CITATION.cff` file to the root of a repository will cause a "Cite this repository" link to appear under the repo description: ![repo sidebar](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35435704/208269638-bcc02a6e-f26f-49a1-a4df-1cd49deb3a0e.png) Clicking on the text will render a dropdown with a brief message about repository citations, and different formatting options that the viewer can use to cite the repo: ![cite this repository dropdown](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35435704/208269578-81f49840-16cc-423d-96f4-573b2bac0018.png) My PR creates a `CITATION.cff` with information about the original SemVer author, along with the recorded release date of v2.0.0 (according to https://github.com/semver/semver/releases/tag/v2.0.0). Please let me know if any changes should be made to the citation metadata, such as the addition of other authors. --- <sub>🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.</sub>

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