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Citey, a friendly square-bracket mascot, popping up on a research paper to offer one-click citations for the software it mentions.

Making software citation as easy as
1, 2, 3.

Citey is a browser extension and toolkit that turns software citation into a single-button action for researchers.

Citey, where researchers already work

On arXiv — match the software cited in a paper as you read.
In Overleaf — drop citations straight into your .bib as you write.

Citey isn’t in the Chrome Web Store yet. To use it today, clone the repo and load the unpacked extension in Chrome — follow the install instructions on GitHub →

Citey currently runs on a static database of software mapping

Get your software into the database in four steps.

  1. 1

    Read about software citation

    Why software citation matters, what to cite, and which standards Citey enforces.

    Read the guide →
  2. 2

    Generate a CITATION.cff for your repo

    Create the standard Citation File Format file.

    Open CFF generator →
  3. 3

    Generate a codemeta.json for your repo

    Create the JSON-LD metadata file that software registries (Software Heritage, JOSS, etc.) consume for indexing.

    Open CodeMeta generator →
  4. 4

    Add your repo to Citey's database

    Paste your repo URL. Citey reads the files you just committed, builds a citation, and opens a pull request for you.

    Add your package →