diff --git a/.github/workflows/cffconvert.yml b/.github/workflows/cffconvert.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..60fd8f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/cffconvert.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+name: cffconvert
+
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - CITATION.cff
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - CITATION.cff        
+
+jobs:
+  validate:
+    name: "validate"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out a copy of the repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Check whether the citation metadata from CITATION.cff is valid
+        uses: citation-file-format/cffconvert-github-action@2.0.0
+        with:
+          args: "--validate"
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diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 424b64a..0ce7cfd 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 ---
 # Metadata for citation of this software according to the CFF format (https://citation-file-format.github.io/)
 cff-version: 1.2.0
-title: 'MNE-HFO: Estimate HFOs with MNE in Python'
+title: "MNE-HFO: Estimate HFOs with MNE in Python"
 authors:
-    - given-names: Adam
-      family-names: Li
-      affiliation: 'Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA'
-      orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8421-365X'
+  - given-names: Adam
+    family-names: Li
+    affiliation: "Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA"
+    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8421-365X"
 type: software
-repository-code: 'https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-hfo'
+repository-code: "https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-hfo"
 license: BSD-3-Clause
 keywords:
   - neuroscience
@@ -25,4 +25,3 @@ keywords:
 message: >-
   Please cite this software using the metadata from
   'preferred-citation' in the CITATION.cff file.
-  
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