diff --git a/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml b/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml
index 71aee495..5a95db63 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ on:
       - docs/notebooks
       - environment-docs.yml
       - environment.yml
+      - pyproject.toml
       - requirements_dev.txt
       - setup.cfg
       - setup.py
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e910f4c2..8f6e6ca5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ target-version = [
 current_version = "0.2.4"
 commit = true
 tag = false
-tag_name = "{new_version}"
+tag_name = "v{new_version}"
 allow_dirty = false
 serialize = ["{major}.{minor}.{patch}"]
 parse = "(?P<major>\\d+)\\.(?P<minor>\\d+)\\.(?P<patch>\\d+)"