diff --git a/CITATIONS.bib b/CITATIONS.bib
index b3cd909aa0..0fd28323dd 100644
--- a/CITATIONS.bib
+++ b/CITATIONS.bib
@@ -408,3 +408,20 @@ @article{Zeng_EnergyFuels_2021_v35_p762
   year         = 2021,
   doi          = {10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c03211},
 }
+
+@article{Zhang_2026_multitaskfinetuning,
+  annote       = {fit properties and multi-task fine-tuning},
+  author       = {
+    Chengqian Zhang and Duo Zhang and Anyang Peng and Mingyu Guo and Yuzhi
+    Zhang and Lei Wang and Guolin Ke and Linfeng Zhang and Tiejun Li and Han
+    Wang
+  },
+  title        = {
+    {Multi-Task Fine-Tuning Enables Robust Out-of-Distribution Generalization
+    in Atomistic Models}
+  },
+  journal      = {arXiv},
+  year         = 2026,
+  pages        = {2601.08486},
+  doi          = {10.48550/arXiv.2601.08486},
+}
diff --git a/doc/credits.rst b/doc/credits.rst
index c48e8dab6c..2c72a8d2ca 100644
--- a/doc/credits.rst
+++ b/doc/credits.rst
@@ -148,6 +148,12 @@ Cite DeePMD-kit and methods
 
    Mo_npjComputMater_2022_v8_p107
 
+- If fitting properties (e.g. band gap) or multi-task fine-tuning is used,
+
+.. bibliography::
+   :filter: False
+
+   Zhang_2026_multitaskfinetuning
 
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