diff --git a/debug/debug.html b/debug/debug.html
index b6bbce6a6e5..d291fe59d09 100644
--- a/debug/debug.html
+++ b/debug/debug.html
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
 map.on('load', function() {
     map.addSource('geojson', {
         "type": "geojson",
-        "data": "/test/integration/data/linestring.geojson"
+        "data": "/test/integration/data/linestring.geojson",
+        "attribution": "GeoJSON Attribution"
     });
     map.addLayer({
         "id": "route",
diff --git a/flow-typed/style-spec.js b/flow-typed/style-spec.js
index df6e3260355..ce38e309978 100644
--- a/flow-typed/style-spec.js
+++ b/flow-typed/style-spec.js
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ declare type GeojsonSourceSpecification = {|
     "type": "geojson",
     "data"?: mixed,
     "maxzoom"?: number,
+    "attribution"?: string,
     "buffer"?: number,
     "tolerance"?: number,
     "cluster"?: boolean,
diff --git a/src/source/geojson_source.js b/src/source/geojson_source.js
index c1f06bf4a10..0d9a9291743 100644
--- a/src/source/geojson_source.js
+++ b/src/source/geojson_source.js
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ class GeoJSONSource extends Evented implements Source {
     minzoom: number;
     maxzoom: number;
     tileSize: number;
+    attribution: string;
 
     isTileClipped: boolean;
     reparseOverscaled: boolean;
@@ -109,6 +110,7 @@ class GeoJSONSource extends Evented implements Source {
 
         if (options.maxzoom !== undefined) this.maxzoom = options.maxzoom;
         if (options.type) this.type = options.type;
+        if (options.attribution) this.attribution = options.attribution;
 
         const scale = EXTENT / this.tileSize;
 
diff --git a/src/style-spec/reference/v8.json b/src/style-spec/reference/v8.json
index 13595ee793f..c404deed477 100644
--- a/src/style-spec/reference/v8.json
+++ b/src/style-spec/reference/v8.json
@@ -329,6 +329,10 @@
       "default": 18,
       "doc": "Maximum zoom level at which to create vector tiles (higher means greater detail at high zoom levels)."
     },
+    "attribution": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "doc": "Contains an attribution to be displayed when the map is shown to a user."
+    },
     "buffer": {
       "type": "number",
       "default": 128,
diff --git a/test/unit/ui/control/attribution.test.js b/test/unit/ui/control/attribution.test.js
index a7e5c31393b..a29df15b327 100644
--- a/test/unit/ui/control/attribution.test.js
+++ b/test/unit/ui/control/attribution.test.js
@@ -89,14 +89,16 @@ test('AttributionControl dedupes attributions that are substrings of others', (t
         map.addSource('3', { type: 'vector', attribution: 'Another Source' });
         map.addSource('4', { type: 'vector', attribution: 'Hello' });
         map.addSource('5', { type: 'vector', attribution: 'Hello World' });
+        map.addSource('6', { type: 'geojson', data: { type: 'FeatureCollection', features: [] }, attribution: 'Hello World' });
+        map.addSource('7', { type: 'geojson', data: { type: 'FeatureCollection', features: [] }, attribution: 'GeoJSON Source' });
 
     });
 
     let times = 0;
     map.on('data', (e) => {
         if (e.dataType === 'source' && e.sourceDataType === 'metadata') {
-            if (++times === 5) {
-                t.equal(attribution._container.innerHTML, 'Hello World | Another Source');
+            if (++times === 7) {
+                t.equal(attribution._container.innerHTML, 'Hello World | Another Source | GeoJSON Source');
                 t.end();
             }
         }