  Are others using software you've written in their research and citing it as
you want it to be cited? Software can be cited in different ways, some good,
and some not good at all for tracking and counting citations in indexers such
as ADS and Clarivate's Web of Science. Generally, these resources need to match
citations to resources, such as journal articles or software records, they
ingest. This presentation covered common reasons as to why a code might not be
cited well (in a trackable/countable way), which citation methods are
trackable, how to specify this information for your software, and where this
information should be placed. It also covered standard software metadata files,
how to create them, and how to use them. Creating a metadata file, such as a
CITATION.cff or codemeta.json, and adding it to the root of your code repo is
easy to do with the ASCL's metadata file creation overlay, and will help out
anyone wanting to give you credit for your computational method, whether it's a
huge carefully-written and tested package, or a short
quick-and-dirty-but-oh-so-useful code.
