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Following the JSON Feed 1.1 specification, this document
describes a extension for items for references to sources cited in items. The extension
name is _references.
An simple example item with a _references section:
{
"id": "https://doi.org/10.59350/krw9n-dv417",
"url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/09/one-million-iupac-names-4.html",
"title": "One Million IUPAC names #4: a lot is happening",
"_references": [
{
"url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16755947",
"doi": "10.5281/zenodo.16755947"
}
]
}
The goal of this extension is to make references cited the text of items in the feed easier to handle.
A _references extension of an item is an array, and it is optional (as extensions are).
Each reference includes:
url (required, string) is a unique URL for that reference. An URL based on an persistant unique
identifier is therefore recommended.doi (optional, string) is the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the reference.Optionally, each reference can be linked to one or more Citation Typing Ontology
citation intent annotations. Therefore, each items in the _references array also allows
for the following object:
cito (optional, array of strings) is an array of strings where each string is the local
name of a CiTO annotation, e.g. cites, usesMethodIn, and citesAsRecommendedReading.A simple example:
"_references": [
{
"url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16755947",
"doi": "10.5281/zenodo.16755947",
"cito": [
"citesAsRecommendedReading"
]
}
]
Version 1 — 2025-08-10