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+@software{Lisa_My_Research_Software_2017,
+  author = {Lisa, Mona and Bot, Hew},
+  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1234},
+  month = {12},
+  title = {{My Research Software}},
+  url = {https://github.com/github/linguist},
+  version = {2.0.4},
+  year = {2017}
+}