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+## Authors
+
+- **Ahmed Zoubir Messalti**
+- **Sadik Bessou**
+
+**Institution:** University Ferhat Abbas Sétif 1, Algeria  
+**Corresponding author:** ahmedzoubir.messalti@univ-setif.dz
+
+---
+
 ## Citation
 
-The citation for the accompanying MagharibiBERT paper will be added
-following publication.
+If you use MagharibiBERT in your research, please cite the accompanying paper:
+
+> Ahmed Zoubir Messalti and Sadik Bessou.  
+> **MagharibiBERT: A Regionally Adapted Language Model for Maghrebi Arabic Social Media.**  
+> *International Journal of Computers and Their Applications*, 2026.  
+> **Accepted for publication. Planned issue: Volume 33, No. 4, December 2026.**
+
+Final issue assignment, page numbers, and the article link will be updated upon publication.
+
+```bibtex
+@article{messalti2026magharibibert,
+  author  = {Messalti, Ahmed Zoubir and Bessou, Sadik},
+  title   = {{MagharibiBERT}: A Regionally Adapted Language Model
+             for Maghrebi Arabic Social Media},
+  journal = {International Journal of Computers and Their Applications},
+  year    = {2026},
+  note    = {Accepted for publication.
+             Planned issue: volume 33, number 4, December 2026}
+}
+```
 
-MagharibiBERT is initialized from MARBERT. Users should also cite the
-original MARBERT work:
+MagharibiBERT is developed within the MARBERT model lineage.
+Users should also cite the original MARBERT work:
 
-> Abdul-Mageed, M., Elmadany, A., and Nagoudi, E. M. B. (2021).
-> ARBERT & MARBERT: Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Arabic.
-> ACL-IJCNLP 2021.
+> Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, AbdelRahim Elmadany, and El Moatez Billah Nagoudi. (2021).  
+> **ARBERT & MARBERT: Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Arabic.**  
+> *ACL-IJCNLP 2021*, pp. 7088–7105.  
+> https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.551
 
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