diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ce6697aaa..f2c517ec8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ cs.__citation__
 BibTeX format citation is here.
 
 ```
-@misc{github_repo,
+@misc{covsirphy_repo,
 author = {Hirokazu Takaya and CovsirPhy Development Team},
 title = {CovsirPhy version [version number]: Python library for COVID-19 analysis with phase-dependent SIR-derived ODE models},
 year = {2020},
diff --git a/data/README.md b/data/README.md
index 44ae3c1f3..d8fb427e2 100644
--- a/data/README.md
+++ b/data/README.md
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Kindly cite this dataset under CC BY-4.0 license as follows.
 BibTeX format citation is here.
 
 ```
-@misc{github_repo,
+@misc{covid19_jp_repo,
 author = {Hirokazu Takaya},
 title = {COVID-19 dataset in Japan},
 year = {2020},