# GitHub Native Citation Support

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/citation-cff/github-citation-integration/  
**Provider:** Citation File Format — https://apis.io/providers/citation-cff/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files

GitHub Native Citation Support 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 Discovery, GitHub, and Integration. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

GitHub natively reads CITATION.cff files and renders a Cite this repository button on the repository landing page that generates BibTeX and APA snippets from the file's metadata.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files

## Other Citation File Format APIs (5)

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

## Tags

Discovery, GitHub, Integration

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/citation-cff/github-citation-integration/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/citation-cff/.