Consider adding a command to get the actual citation of Quarto

[arnaudgallou]

Description

This follows up a discussion in #4366.

I'd like to suggest implementing a command to get the current citation of Quarto being installed, probably with a way to choose between the APA and BibTeX format.

[mcanouil]

The title and description is unclear.

The following command exists:

quarto --version

Is it not a feature request to get a citation directly from Quarto with the version in it instead of what you described?

Like quarto citation bibtex (or whatever) that would return for Quarto 1.6.*:

@software{Allaire_Quarto_2024,
author = {Allaire, J.J. and Teague, Charles and Scheidegger, Carlos and Xie, Yihui and Dervieux, Christophe and Woodhull, Gordon},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5960048},
month = nov,
title = {{Quarto}},
url = {https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli},
version = {1.6},
year = {2024}
}

[arnaudgallou]

My bad, I was dealing with package versions for something unrelated and got things mixed up.

Yes something like:

quarto --citation bibtex
quarto --citation apa

Probably returning as BibTeX by default because it's probably more common (and longer to write).

[cscheid]

Thanks! Tracking here: #11863