# Replacing CITATION.bib with a standard metadata format

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**Category:** Tooling\
**Tags:** packages\
**Created:** [July 27, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/replacing-citation-bib-with-a-standard-metadata-format/26871 "2019-07-27T03:14:17Z")\
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> [@StefanKarpinski](#):
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> It would help to encourage the use of CodeMeta if someone could decipher the standard sufficiently to figure out how to write citations in packages. I have not been able to glean basic things like:
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> - what the file name should be
> - what the relevant field names are
> - what tools one should install to parse and transform CodeMeta
> - what command invocations are necessary to generate BibTeX from CodeMeta

- `codemeta.json` is the standard name ([codemeta/codemeta#81](https://github.com/codemeta/codemeta/issues/81))
- the possible fields are listed here: [The CodeMeta Project](https://codemeta.github.io/terms/)
- it’s a JSON file.
- Essentially `doi2bib(JSON.parse(String(read("codemeta.json")))["citation"])` using the `doi2bib` function I posted [above](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/replacing-citation-bib-with-a-standard-metadata-format/26871/4), at least in the minimal case of a single `citation` given by a DOI, although technically the `citation` field is a URL so you’d need split out the part after `http://dx.doi.org/` first … you could also support other kinds of URLs as I mentioned above. (The `citation` field can also be an array.)

I agree that their documentation is abysmal, though.

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