diff --git a/R/funcs.R b/R/funcs.R
index 8e077af..3b02b2c 100644
--- a/R/funcs.R
+++ b/R/funcs.R
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ ipak <- function(pkg){
     citation <- paste0("If you use DEBrowser in published research, please cite:\n",
                        "Alper Kucukural, Onur Yuksel, Deniz M. Ozata, Melissa J. Moore, Manuel Garber,",
                        " DEBrowser: Interactive Differential Expression Analysis and Visualization Tool for Count Data,",
-                       " Bioarxiv 2018, doi: 10.1101/399931", "\n")
+                       " BMC Genomics 2019, 20:6 doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-5362-x", "\n")
     
     packageStartupMessage(paste0(msg, citation))
     .initial()
diff --git a/inst/CITATION b/inst/CITATION
index b4809d0..b1cbccf 100644
--- a/inst/CITATION
+++ b/inst/CITATION
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ citEntry(entry="article",
                               as.person("Deniz M. Ozata"),
 			      as.person("Melissa J. Moore"),
 			      as.person("Manuel Garber")),
-         year = 2018,
-	 journal = "Biorxiv",
-         doi = "10.1101/399931",
+         year = 2019,
+         volume = 20,
+         pages = "6",
+	 journal = "BMC Genomics",
+         doi = "10.1186/s12864-018-5362-x",
+         url = "https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-018-5362-x",
          textVersion = 
          paste("Alper Kucukural, Onur Yukselen, Deniz M. Ozata, Melissa J. Moore, Manuel Garber", 
                "DEBrowser: Interactive Differential Expression Analysis and Visualization Tool for Count Data",
-                "Biorxiv (2018)" ) )
+                "BMC Genomics 2019 20:6" ) )