Add a citation file?

[lilyminium]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I would like to cite QCElemental (and related packages) as software I am using, but there seems to be no clear way to do it (e.g. there are 29 contributors on GitHub -- alphabetical ordering of username?)

Describe the solution you'd like

Github supports CITATION.cff files, it'd be super helpful for people who want to cite the QC stack to have one.

https://citation-file-format.github.io/

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[loriab]

good point. qcengine has a codemeta, but qcel does not. I can see about a citation file here and/or a zenodo. for the QC stack, qcarchive as a whole and especially qcfractal have https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wcms.1491 . qcengine and sort-of qcel have https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/5.0059356 . qcschema has nothing journal-wise. i'll see about documenting better, but see if any of those could do in the interim.

[lilyminium]

Great, thank you for those links!

[coltonbh]

Add a note in README.md suggesting to use one of these two papers to cite QCElemental