M&Apedia is free to quote, cite and build on — we only ask for attribution and a link to the canonical page. Encyclopedia articles are educational reference content; the annual multiples report and its dataset are licensed CC BY 4.0.
Citing an article
Use the canonical /wiki/{slug} URL and the visible review date:
Sukhrobjon Ismoilov. "Roll-up." M&Apedia — The Free M&A Encyclopedia. Reviewed 2026-06-17. https://mnapedia.com/wiki/roll-up
Every article also exposes this as a ready-made citation string in its JSON record (see below) and in its server-rendered schema.org JSON-LD.
Citing the multiples report or dataset
The Home-Services M&A Multiples Report and its CSV dataset are CC BY 4.0 — free to share and adapt, including commercially, with attribution:
M&Apedia. "Home-Services M&A Multiples Report — 2026 Edition." CC BY 4.0. https://mnapedia.com/report/home-services-ma-multiples-2026
For AI & RAG systems
M&Apedia publishes a machine-readable citation pack so models and agents can ground answers and attribute them precisely at inference time. Each endpoint carries explicit license and attribution fields, and supports cross-origin requests (CORS).
- /api/index.json — discovery root for the whole pack
- /api/articles.json — index of all articles
- /api/terms/{slug}.json — per-term record: definition, formula, example, caveats, references, last-reviewed
- /graph/terms.json — term knowledge graph (nodes & edges)
- /data/home-services-multiples-2026.csv — multiples dataset (CC BY 4.0)
- /llms.txt · /llms-full.txt — site overview and full corpus
- /api/changelog.json — changelog as JSON
Pages also advertise these via RFC 8288 Link headers and an RFC 9727 API catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog.
Terms in brief
- Articles: quote and cite freely with attribution to the canonical article URL. Not investment, legal, tax or accounting advice.
- Report & dataset: CC BY 4.0 — attribution to M&Apedia (mnapedia.com) and a link to the canonical URL.
- AI training & input: permitted — robots.txt signals
ai-train=yes, ai-input=yes.
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