It would be helpful for researchers referencing semantic versioning to have a proper citation for your work.

Please consider including a CITATION.cff file with appropriate information GitHub can generate citations for published works.

Seems someone opened an issue and closed it after finding an answer, #357. However, newer bibtex software and softwareversion types might be more useful and accurate.

• https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/
• https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files
• https://hal.science/hal-02977711/document