diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 1030cf4..349e9f5 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -13,15 +13,12 @@ authors:
   - family-names: "Pramanik"
     given-names: "Debmalya"
     orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3955-8170"
-  - family-names: "Baral"
-    given-names: "Arijit"
-    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1905-9059"
 
 # title of the repository
 title: "decompose (PCA)"
 
 # specify a code version, this is not yet done
-version: None
+version: v0.1.0
 
 # if the software is publically available under `doi`
 doi: None
@@ -31,3 +28,24 @@ date-released: 2021-07-15
 
 # provide the code link, which is nothing but the repository link
 url: "https://github.com/ZenithClown/decompose"
+
+# the preferred citation describes the code base, but links to the actual
+# paper as preferred citations:
+preferred-citation:
+  type: inproceedings
+  authors:
+    - family-names: "Pramanik"
+      given-names: "Debmalya"
+      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3955-8170"
+    - family-names: "Baral"
+      given-names: "Arijit"
+      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1905-9059"
+  doi: "10.1109/MysuruCon55714.2022.9972517"
+  booktitle: "2022 IEEE 2nd Mysore Sub Section International Conference (MysuruCon), Mysuru, India, 2022"
+  month: 12
+  start: 1 # First page number
+  end: 6 # Last page number
+  title: "Reliable Estimation of Dissipation Factor of In-service Power Transformer"
+  issue: 1
+  volume: 1
+  year: 2022