diff --git a/packages/config/rollup-plugin-build-citation.js b/packages/config/rollup-plugin-build-citation.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6fd80e6ca3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/config/rollup-plugin-build-citation.js
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+const fs = require("node:fs");
+const path = require("path");
+require("@citation-js/plugin-software-formats");
+const { Cite } = require("@citation-js/core");
+
+function cffToJsonPlugin(options = {}) {
+  return {
+    name: "rollup-plugin-cff-to-json",
+    version: "1.0.0",
+
+    generateBundle() {
+      const srcDir = options.srcDir || __dirname;
+      const indexFilePath = path.join(srcDir, "index.js"); // Assume index.js is in src
+
+      const updateCitations = (indexFilePath, citationJson) => {
+        let fileContent = fs.readFileSync(indexFilePath, "utf-8");
+        fileContent = fileContent.replace(/`{citationJson}`/g, citationJson);
+        fs.writeFileSync(indexFilePath, fileContent, "utf-8");
+      };
+
+      const templateDir = path.dirname(srcDir);
+      const cffFilePath = path.join(templateDir, "CITATION.cff"); // Assume CITATION.cff is top level
+
+      try {
+        let cffCitation = fs.readFileSync(cffFilePath, "utf-8").toString();
+        Cite.async(cffCitation).then((data) => {
+          const citationJson = JSON.stringify(
+            data.format("data", {
+              format: "object",
+              lang: "en-US",
+            }),
+            null,
+            2
+          );
+          updateCitations(indexFilePath, citationJson);
+        });
+      } catch (error) {
+        this.error(`Error building citation from CITATION.cff: ${error.message}`);
+      }
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = cffToJsonPlugin;
diff --git a/packages/config/rollup.js b/packages/config/rollup.js
index caac6d97a8..90586fee33 100644
--- a/packages/config/rollup.js
+++ b/packages/config/rollup.js
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import esbuild from "rollup-plugin-esbuild";
 import externals from "rollup-plugin-node-externals";
 import ts from "typescript";
 
+import cffToJsonPlugin from "./rollup-plugin-build-citation";
+
 const getTsCompilerOptions = () => {
   const cwd = process.cwd();
   return ts.parseJsonConfigFileContent(