# cffinit Authoring Tool

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/citation-cff/cffinit/  
**Provider:** Citation File Format — https://apis.io/providers/citation-cff/  
**Documentation:** https://citation-file-format.github.io/cff-initializer-javascript/

cffinit Authoring Tool is one of 6 APIs that [Citation File Format](https://apis.io/providers/citation-cff/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Authoring, cffinit, and Web App.

cffinit is a web-based form that walks software authors through creating a syntactically and semantically valid CITATION.cff file. It produces downloadable YAML and validates content against the CFF schema in real time.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Web Application** — https://citation-file-format.github.io/cff-initializer-javascript/
- **Source Code** — https://github.com/citation-file-format/cff-initializer-javascript

## Other Citation File Format APIs (5)

- [Citation File Format Schema](https://apis.io/apis/citation-cff/cff-schema/)
- [cffconvert](https://apis.io/apis/citation-cff/cffconvert/)
- [cff-validator GitHub Action](https://apis.io/apis/citation-cff/cff-validator/)
- [GitHub Native Citation Support](https://apis.io/apis/citation-cff/github-citation-integration/)
- [Zenodo Software Publishing](https://apis.io/apis/citation-cff/zenodo-integration/)

## Tags

Authoring, cffinit, Web App

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