From d74e397c35eb70cba8394b0aeedea21500e5d59f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Lemire <daniel@lemire.me>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:10:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] adding ref

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 README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2ef8fc5..490b93c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -244,6 +244,21 @@ API Documentation
 
 http://www.javadoc.io/doc/me.lemire.integercompression/JavaFastPFOR/
 
+
+Citing this work
+-----------------
+
+If you use JavaFastPFOR in your work, please consider citing the project. A recommended BibTeX entry is:
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{lemire2025_javafastpfor,
+  author = {Daniel Lemire},
+  title = {{JavaFastPFOR: A simple integer compression library in Java}},
+  year = {2025},
+  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/fast-pack/JavaFastPFOR}},
+}
+```
+
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