diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pyproject.toml b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pyproject.toml
index e5963d1b..7a7a36e3 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pyproject.toml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pyproject.toml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ doc = [
     "sphinx-book-theme>=1.0.0",
     "myst-nb>=1.1.0",
     "sphinxcontrib-bibtex>=1.0.0",
+    "setuptools",  # Until pybtex >0.23.0 releases: https://bitbucket.org/pybtex-devs/pybtex/issues/169/
     "sphinx-autodoc-typehints",
     "sphinxext-opengraph",
     # For notebooks