diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b7121aee..7b701351 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Authors@R: c(person("Sean", "Anderson", email =
     person("Athol", "Whitten", role = "aut"))
 Description: Develops a framework for fisheries stock assessment simulation
     testing with Stock Synthesis 3 (SS3) as described in Anderson et al.
-    (2014) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092725
+    (2014) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092725>.
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 URL: https://github.com/ss3sim/ss3sim
 BugReports: https://github.com/ss3sim/ss3sim/issues
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 60fdd2f2..4e684a26 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# ss3sim 0.9.5
+
+* Adds citation to Description field
+
 # ss3sim 0.9.4
 
 * Fix compatibility with dplyr 0.6.0
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index ce0367f7..6448804f 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Adds citation to Description field as requested.
+Adds citation to Description field as requested in the format <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092725>.
 
 Fixes compatibility with soon to be released dplyr 0.6.0.