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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ that provide a framework for storing and versioning connectomics data and large
 dynamic annotations, metadata, and segmentations. This repository supplies client-side
 code to easily interact with the microservices in CAVE.
 
+A full description of the Connectome Annotation Versioning Engine can be found in the following paper:
+(https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.26.550598v1)[https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.26.550598v1]
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 ## Installation
 
 `CAVEclient` can be installed from PyPI: