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 ## Fairseq Checkpoints
 Get the fairseq checkpoints [here](https://drive.proton.me/urls/P83GCPNM40#2f0f87XEIrQP).
 
+# Citations
+
+If you use GeistBERT in your research, please cite the following paper:
+
+```
+@misc{scheibleschmitt2025geistbertbreathinglifegerman,
+      title={GeistBERT: Breathing Life into German NLP}, 
+      author={Raphael Scheible-Schmitt and Johann Frei},
+      year={2025},
+      eprint={2506.11903},
+      archivePrefix={arXiv},
+      primaryClass={cs.CL},
+      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11903}, 
+}
+```