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Citation

How to cite this dataset in academic, policy, and journalistic work.

Machine-readable citation

The canonical citation metadata lives in CITATION.cff at the repository root, in the Citation File Format 1.2.0. GitHub, Zenodo, and citation management tools (Zotero, Mendeley) read this file directly.

Current version

Versioned snapshots

Versioned snapshot URLs (for citing the specific state of the data at a point in time) are produced on every tagged release via the publishing layer. Release assets live at GitHub's retention-guaranteed storage — they survive repo renames, custom-domain migrations, and GitHub's own URL-format changes.

Citing a specific data snapshot

Every tagged release produces an immutable snapshot of the published datasets — the URLs listed in manifest.json::versioned_url resolve to GitHub release assets with retention guarantees.

To cite the data (e.g. in an academic paper where the specific snapshot matters more than the code state that produced it):

@misc{uk_subsidy_tracker_v2026_04,
  author       = {Lyon, Richard},
  title        = {UK Renewable Subsidy Tracker — {{v2026.04}} data snapshot},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://github.com/richardjlyon/uk-subsidy-tracker/releases/tag/v2026.04},
  note         = {See manifest.json for per-dataset SHA-256 checksums and upstream provenance.}
}

The manifest for any tagged release is always at:

https://github.com/richardjlyon/uk-subsidy-tracker/releases/download/v<YYYY.MM>/manifest.json

Pattern: always tag-name; never main or latest/. See data/index.md for full reader-side documentation — pandas, DuckDB, and R snippets, plus the SHA-256 integrity verification workflow.