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 cff-version: 1.2.0
 message: "If you use Lightning IR in your research, please cite as below."
-references:
-  - type: conference-paper
-    authors:
-    - family-names: "Schlatt"
-      given-names: "Ferdinand"
-      orcid: "0000-0002-6032-909X"
-    - family-names: "Fröbe"
-      given-names: "Maik"
-      orcid: "0000-0002-1003-981X"
-    - family-names: "Hagen"
-      given-names: "Matthias"
-      orcid: "0000-0002-9733-2890"
-    title: "Lightning IR: Straightforward Fine-tuning and Inference of Transformer-based Language Models for Information Retrieval"
-    year: 2025
-    collection-title: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '25)
-    doi: "10.1145/3701551.3704118"
-    conference:
-      - name: Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
-        city: Hannover
-        country: Germany
-        date-start: 2025-03-10
-        date-end: 2025-03-14
+authors:
+  - family-names: "Schlatt"
+    given-names: "Ferdinand"
+    orcid: 0000-0002-6032-909X
+  - family-names: "Fröbe"
+    given-names: "Maik"
+    orcid: 0000-0002-1003-981X
+  - family-names: "Hagen"
+    given-names: "Matthias"
+    orcid: 0000-0002-9733-2890
+title: "Lightning IR: Straightforward Fine-tuning and Inference of Transformer-based Language Models for Information Retrieval"
+version: 0.0.2
+preferred-citation:
+  type: conference-paper
+  title: "Lightning IR: Straightforward Fine-tuning and Inference of Transformer-based Language Models for Information Retrieval"
+  authors:
+  - family-names: "Schlatt"
+    given-names: "Ferdinand"
+    orcid: 0000-0002-6032-909X
+  - family-names: "Fröbe"
+    given-names: "Maik"
+    orcid: 0000-0002-1003-981X
+  - family-names: "Hagen"
+    given-names: "Matthias"
+    orcid: 0000-0002-9733-2890
+  doi: "10.1145/3701551.3704118"
+  year: 2025
+  collection-title: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '25)
+  conference:
+    name: Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
+    city: Hannover
+    country: Germany
+    date-start: 2025-03-10
+    date-end: 2025-03-14