diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
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@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you want to cite the framework, feel free to use this (but only if you loved it 😊)"
+title: "PyTorch Lightning"
+abstract: "The lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research. Scale your models, not the boilerplate."
+date-released: 2019-03-30
+authors:
+  - family-names: "William"
+    given-names: "Falcon"
+  - name: "The PyTorch Lightning team"
+version: 1.4
+doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3828935
+license: "Apache-2.0"
+url: "https://www.pytorchlightning.ai"
+repository-code: "https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning"
+keywords:
+  - machine learning
+  - deep learning
+  - artificial intelligence
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
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--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ include *.md
 # Include the license file
 include LICENSE
 
+# Include the citation info
+include *.cff
+
 exclude *.sh
 exclude *.svg
 recursive-include pytorch_lightning *.py
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -429,24 +429,3 @@ grid train --grid_gpus 4 my_model.py --learning_rate 'uniform(1e-6, 1e-1, 20)' -
 
 The above command will launch (20 * 4) experiments each running on 4 GPUs (320 GPUs!) - by making ZERO changes to
 your code.
-
-______________________________________________________________________
-
-## Licence
-
-Please observe the Apache 2.0 license that is listed in this repository.
-In addition, the Lightning framework is Patent Pending.
-
-## BibTeX
-
-If you want to cite the framework feel free to use this (but only if you loved it 😊) or [zenodo](https://zenodo.org/record/3828935#.YC45Lc9Khqs):
-
-```bibtex
-@article{falcon2019pytorch,
-  title={PyTorch Lightning},
-  author={Falcon, WA, et al.},
-  journal={GitHub. Note: https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning},
-  volume={3},
-  year={2019}
-}
-```