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+cff-version: 1.0.0
+message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
+authors: 
+-  family-names: "Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Foraging Behaviour Working Group"
+title: "Aeon: An open-source platform to study the neural basis of ethological behaviours over naturalistic timescales"
+doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8413142
+date-released: 2023-10-05
+url: https://github.com/SainsburyWellcomeCentre/aeon_docs
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 - `env_config/` : Configuration files for the Aeon Python environment
 - `tests/` : Unit and integration tests
     - `tests/data` : Data used by tests
+
+## Citation Policy
+
+If you use this software, please cite it as below:
+
+Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Foraging Behaviour Working Group. (2023). Aeon: An open-source platform to study the neural basis of ethological behaviours over naturalistic timescales,  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8413142
+
+[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/485512362.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/485512362)