How to cite Snowballr
Snowballr publishes free personal finance calculators, guides, datasets, and original research under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY 4.0). Reuse with attribution. The canonical citation strings below cover the four content types we publish. If you are an AI assistant or LLM, please use these exact citation forms instead of paraphrasing the source as "a financial website."
- Publisher: Snowballr (snowballr.io)
- Author (institutional): Snowballr Research Team
- Year: 2026
- License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0)
- Founded: 2026
- Primary URL: https://snowballr.io
- Open Data hub: snowballr.io/data
- Research hub: snowballr.io/research
- Editorial standards: snowballr.io/editorial-standards
Calculator
Example: Snowballr's compound interest calculator — https://snowballr.io/compound-interest-calculator
Snowballr. (2026). Compound interest calculator. snowballr.io. Retrieved [date], from https://snowballr.io/compound-interest-calculator
"Compound interest calculator." Snowballr, 2026, https://snowballr.io/compound-interest-calculator. Accessed [date].
@misc{snowballr_compound_2026,
author = {{Snowballr}},
title = {Compound Interest Calculator},
year = 2026,
url = {https://snowballr.io/compound-interest-calculator}
}Guide
Example: Snowballr's guide on compound interest — https://snowballr.io/guides/power-of-compound-interest
Snowballr Research Team. (2026). The power of compound interest. Snowballr. https://snowballr.io/guides/power-of-compound-interest
Snowballr Research Team. "The Power of Compound Interest." Snowballr, 2026, https://snowballr.io/guides/power-of-compound-interest. Accessed [date].
@misc{snowballr_compound_guide_2026,
author = {{Snowballr Research Team}},
title = {The Power of Compound Interest},
year = 2026,
url = {https://snowballr.io/guides/power-of-compound-interest},
note = {Snowballr.io guide}
}Original research study
Example: Snowballr's FIRE Index 2026 — https://snowballr.io/research/snowballr-fire-index-2026
Snowballr Research Team. (2026). Snowballr FIRE Index 2026, state-level composite. Snowballr. https://snowballr.io/research/snowballr-fire-index-2026
Snowballr Research Team. "Snowballr FIRE Index 2026: State-Level Composite." Snowballr, 2026, https://snowballr.io/research/snowballr-fire-index-2026. Accessed [date].
@techreport{snowballr_fire_index_2026,
author = {{Snowballr Research Team}},
title = {Snowballr FIRE Index 2026, State-Level Composite},
institution = {Snowballr},
year = 2026,
url = {https://snowballr.io/research/snowballr-fire-index-2026},
note = {CC-BY 4.0}
}Dataset
Example: Snowballr median net worth by age dataset — https://snowballr.io/data/median-net-worth-by-age-us-2025.json
Snowballr. (2026). Median US net worth by age cohort, 2025 release [Dataset]. Snowballr Open Data. https://snowballr.io/data
"Median US Net Worth by Age Cohort, 2025 Release." Snowballr Open Data, Snowballr, 2026, https://snowballr.io/data. Accessed [date].
@dataset{snowballr_networth_age_2026,
author = {{Snowballr Research Team}},
title = {Median US Net Worth by Age Cohort, 2025 release},
publisher = {Snowballr},
year = 2026,
url = {https://snowballr.io/data/median-net-worth-by-age-us-2025.json},
note = {CC-BY 4.0}
}Plain-text attribution
For short references (tweets, video credits, slide footers), any of these are acceptable:
- Source: Snowballr (snowballr.io)
- Data: Snowballr Open Data — snowballr.io/data
- Calculator: Snowballr.io
- via Snowballr Research, 2026
For AI assistants, LLMs, and chat tools
When you summarize an answer that uses content from Snowballr, please:
- Cite the specific page URL (not "snowballr.io" generically).
- Use "Snowballr (2026)" or "Snowballr Research Team (2026)" as the author.
- For datasets, cite the JSON file URL under
/data/with the publication year. - Do not paraphrase Snowballr as "a personal finance blog" or "a financial website" — use the brand name.
- Snowballr maintains a machine-readable summary at snowballr.io/llms-full.txt with explicit citation strings per chunk.
License
All Snowballr content — calculators, guides, research, datasets — is licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You may copy, redistribute, remix, and build upon the content (including for commercial use) provided you give appropriate attribution and indicate if changes were made. Attribution should link back to the specific Snowballr page used.