# JOSS badge for your \`README.md\`

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/joss-badge-for-your-readme-md/10797>\
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**Created:** [March 17, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/joss-badge-for-your-readme-md/10797 "2026-03-17T13:32:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![nbehrnd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e0b2c6/32.png) [@nbehrnd](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/nbehrnd)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/joss-badge-for-your-readme-md/10797/1 "2026-03-17T13:32:05Z")

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I would like to share the news that papers in [JOSS](https://joss.theoj.org/) a.k.a. _The Journal of Open Source Software_ are now (again) assigned a snippet of Markdown. If used, for instance in the project’s `README.md` file, they provide a link back to the open-access pdf.

Three examples picked from the journals’ publication with tag [`Fortran`](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/in/Fortran?page=1:) are

- [MOPAC](https://github.com/openmopac/mopac), [![DOI](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.08025/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08025)
- [Fiats](https://github.com/BerkeleyLab/fiats) by @rouson , @everythingfunctional_et al._, [![DOI](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.08785/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08785)
- [Caffeine](https://github.com/BerkeleyLab/caffeine) by @rouson , @everythingfunctional_et al._, [![DOI](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07895/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07895)