diff --git a/src/colvar/Puckering.cpp b/src/colvar/Puckering.cpp
index a27d1fa492d1de8d35ac9c557c18ad091dce3b92..56725c9ec9df88b2b9bbfe0f233c547e7e73a6cf 100644
--- a/src/colvar/Puckering.cpp
+++ b/src/colvar/Puckering.cpp
@@ -53,7 +53,11 @@ namespace colvar {
  as also discussed in \cite biarnes2007conformational .
  This implementation provides both a triplet with Cartesian components (qx, qy, and qz)
  and a triplet of polar components (amplitude, phi, and theta).
- Applications of this particular implentation are to be published (paper in preparation).
+ Applications of this particular implementation are to be published (paper in preparation).
+
+ \bug The 6-membered ring implementation distributed with this version of PLUMED leads to
+  qx and qy values that have an opposite sign with respect to those originally defined in \cite cremer1975general.
+  The bug will be fixed in a later version but is here kept to preserve reproducibility.
 
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