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 [![code-style](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-black)](https://github.com/psf/black/)
 [![Documentation](https://readthedocs.org/projects/zntrack/badge/?version=latest)](https://zntrack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
 [![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/zincware/ZnTrack/HEAD)
-[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.6472850.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6472850)
+[![DOI](https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2401.10603-red)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10603)
 [![ZnTrack](https://img.shields.io/badge/Powered%20by-ZnTrack-%23007CB0)](https://zntrack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
 [![zincware](https://img.shields.io/badge/Powered%20by-zincware-darkcyan)](https://github.com/zincware)
 
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 For more information on DVC visit their [homepage](https://dvc.org/doc).
 
+# References
+
+If you use ZnTrack in your research and find it helpful please cite us.
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{zillsZnTrackDataCode2024,
+  title = {ZnTrack -- Data as Code},
+  author = {Zills, Fabian and Sch{\"a}fer, Moritz and Tovey, Samuel and K{\"a}stner, Johannes and Holm, Christian},
+  year = {2024},
+  eprint={2401.10603},
+  archivePrefix={arXiv},
+}
+```
+
 # Copyright
 
 This project is distributed under the