diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS.md
similarity index 100%
rename from AUTHORS
rename to AUTHORS.md
diff --git a/REUSE.toml b/REUSE.toml
index 712e750eef6e87f4b59c19e9ab3ea9f51e89a01a..d095b8e8f12743d9d8fb9aba57729bf8d1e0d531 100644
--- a/REUSE.toml
+++ b/REUSE.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 version = 1
 
 [[annotations]]
-path = ["**/README", "AUTHORS", "CONTRIBUTING.md", "README.md"]
+path = ["**/README", "AUTHORS.md", "CONTRIBUTING.md", "README.md"]
 SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "2013-2024 MPI-M, Luis Kornblueh, Rahul Sinha and DWD, Florian Prill. All rights reserved."
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "CC-BY-4.0"