Some scientific journals only accept references with DOIs, it is the case of the Journal of Open Source Software for example (a common place to publish scientific software).

So if your research group is maintaining scientific software and you would like that people cite it, if you don't already have a paper for this purpose, think of (1) creating a DOI for your software and (2) making it available. For step (1): if you are using GitHub, there is a Zenodo integration that allows to automatically archive every version released and create a DOI for them: docs.github.com/en/repositorie…

For step (2), still if you are using GitHub, you can use their `CITATION.cff` file, that they parse and make available to reference-manager software such as Zotero: docs.github.com/en/repositorie…

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Referencing and citing content - GitHub Docs

You can use third-party tools to cite and reference content on GitHub.

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