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@@ -64,3 +64,4 @@ keywords:
   - machine learning
   - animal behavior analysis
   - explainable AI
+preferred-citation: "Goodwin, N.L., et al. (2024). Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA). Nature Neuroscience, 27, 1411–1424. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01649-9"