I don't think this is anything chosen by GitHub . Seems like a random format endorsed by some German and Dutch research orgs. Having said that it would be cool

I don't think this is anything chosen by GitHub . Seems like a random format endorsed by some German and Dutch research orgs. Having said that it would be cool to have a standard format/best practice that would also be picked up e.g. by Google scholar ( guess bibtex is the best bet). Like a CITEME.bib file, which would be pretty self-explanatory.