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title: LLM Data-to-Citation Guide — How Schema & NDJSON Earn Citations
description: A practical playbook for turning your site's schema and NDJSON into citations inside LLM answers and AI Overviews.
organization: Neural Command LLC
canonical: https://nrlc.ai/en-us/promptware/llm-data-to-citation/
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How to turn schema and NDJSON into citations in LLM answers and AI Overviews.

LLMs cite when a retrieval step fetches a verifiable passage tied to a stable URL. JSON-LD on page and an AI manifest (/sitemaps/sitemap-ai.ndjson) make that mapping explicit and cheap.

Expose compact JSON-LD objects (one per line) summarizing key pages/entities. Link it from robots.txt with an AI-Manifest line.

`{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","url":"https://nrlc.ai/","name":"NRLC.ai — Home","inLanguage":"en","dateModified":"2026-10-15"}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","url":"https://nrlc.ai/promptware/llm-data-to-citation/","name":"LLM Data-to-Citation Guide","inLanguage":"en","dateModified":"2026-10-15","keywords":["NDJSON","schema","RAG","citations"]}`Stream test:

`curl -s https://nrlc.ai/api/stream?limit=3 | jq .`- @type (e.g., TechArticle), name, url, dateModified
- @id (use your canonical URL with a fragment if needed)
- isPartOf and BreadcrumbList for site context
- Optional Dataset node if you publish sitemap-ai.ndjson as a downloadable asset
- Serve fast NDJSON with Content-Type: application/x-ndjson and long-lived cache for static files.
- Keep page prose concise; move machine details to JSON-LD to reduce tokens.
- Link your canonical "reference pages" from relevant sections to increase retrieval odds.
See also: JSON Stream + SEO AI

Does Google still render HowTo/FAQ rich results?

Eligibility is limited, but the markup still improves machine understanding and RAG mapping. Keep it.

Where do I declare the AI manifest?

Add an AI-Manifest: line in /public/robots.txt pointing to /sitemaps/sitemap-ai.ndjson.



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Source: https://nrlc.ai/en-us/promptware/llm-data-to-citation/
Publisher: Neural Command LLC
License: Editorial use with attribution