diff --git a/mbtrack2/__init__.py b/mbtrack2/__init__.py
index ac4b78db770dd195d8ab1655f7847a3eb95857d7..9e27c5a7c42c95c8f1559dace84913bb9a92d8c1 100644
--- a/mbtrack2/__init__.py
+++ b/mbtrack2/__init__.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def print_version():
         "If used in a publication, please cite mbtrack2 paper and the zenodo archive for the corresponding code version (and other papers for more specific features)."
     )
     print(
-        "[1] A. Gamelin, W. Foosang, N. Yamamoto, V. Gubaidulin and R. Nagaoka, “mbtrack2”. Zenodo, Dec. XX, 2024. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14418989."
+        "[1] A. Gamelin, W. Foosang, N. Yamamoto, V. Gubaidulin and R. Nagaoka, “mbtrack2”. Zenodo, Dec. 16, 2024. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14418989."
     )
     print(
         "[2] A. Gamelin, W. Foosang, and R. Nagaoka, “mbtrack2, a Collective Effect Library in Python”, presented at the 12th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf. (IPAC'21), Campinas, Brazil, May 2021, paper MOPAB070."