diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e807ab5..c4be6e1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Pcod-Bering-Sea 
 
-This repo houses code for the EBS Pacific Cod habitat suitability project
+This repo houses code for the EBS Pacific Cod habitat suitability project - now published: Bigman, J. S., B. J. Laurel, K. Kearney, A. J. Hermann, W. Cheng, K. K. Holsman, and L. A. Rogers. "Predicting Pacific cod thermal spawning habitat in a changing climate." ICES Journal of Marine Science (2023): fsad096. Open access link is here: https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icesjms/fsad096/7204287
 
 key to files: