Including citation in README

README.md

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 ## Citation
 
-*(Citation will be updated with full author list and proceedings details upon publication.)*
+If you use CFC26 in your research, please cite our paper:
+
+```bibtex
+@inproceedings{cfc26neurips,
+  title     = {CFC26: Building Evaluations for Deployment in Sonar-Based Fish Counting},
+  author    = {Van Horn, Madison and Stathatos, Suzanne and Brodjian, Sevan and Kay, Justin and Van Brunt, Kai and Young, Erik and Beery, Sara and Perona, Pietro and Hobley, Michael},
+  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track},
+  year      = {2026},
+  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22549}
+}
+```
 
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