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 ## Citing pycytominer
 
-If you have used `pycytominer` in your work, please consider citing our preprint:
+If you have used `pycytominer` in your project, please cite us as:
+
+> Erik Serrano, Srinivas Niranj Chandrasekaran, Dave Bunten, Kenneth I. Brewer, Jenna Tomkinson, Roshan Kern, Michael Bornholdt, Stephen Fleming, Ruifan Pei, John Arevalo, Hillary Tsang, Vincent Rubinetti, Callum Tromans-Coia, Tim Becker, Erin Weisbart, Charlotte Bunne, Alexandr A. Kalinin, Rebecca Senft, Stephen J. Taylor, Nasim Jamali, Adeniyi Adeboye, Hamdah Shafqat Abbasi, Allen Goodman, Juan C. Caicedo, Anne E. Carpenter, Beth A. Cimini, Shantanu Singh, Gregory P. Way. ["Reproducible image-based profiling with Pycytominer"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13417) _ArXiv: Quantitative Biology_, 2023
 
-> Erik Serrano, Srinivas Niranj Chandrasekaran, Dave Bunten, Kenneth I. Brewer, Jenna Tomkinson, Roshan Kern, Michael Bornholdt, Stephen Fleming, Ruifan Pei, John Arevalo, Hillary Tsang, Vincent Rubinetti, Callum Tromans-Coia, Tim Becker, Erin Weisbart, Charlotte Bunne, Alexandr A. Kalinin, Rebecca Senft, Stephen J. Taylor, Nasim Jamali, Adeniyi Adeboye, Hamdah Shafqat Abbasi, Allen Goodman, Juan C. Caicedo, Anne E. Carpenter, Beth A. Cimini, Shantanu Singh, Gregory P. Way. (2023): [Reproducible image-based profiling with Pycytominer](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13417)
 > DOI: <https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.13417>