diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index fa59481..cc3602e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: pald
 Title: Partitioned Local Depth for Community Structure in Data
-Version: 0.0.3
+Version: 0.0.4
 Authors@R: 
     c(person("Katherine", "Moore", email = "kmoore@amherst.edu", role = c("aut"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6943-2416")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 67dbeba..15e434c 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# pald 0.0.4
+
+* Update `pald` to allow for layouts to be specified and correctly passed to the output
+
 # pald 0.0.3
 
 * Change output in `community_clusters` to be a data frame with two columns: `point` and `community`
diff --git a/man/pald.Rd b/man/pald.Rd
index 97178eb..b78a542 100644
--- a/man/pald.Rd
+++ b/man/pald.Rd
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ pald(
   emph_strong = 2,
   edge_width_factor = 50,
   colors = NULL,
+  layout = NULL,
   ...
 )
 }
@@ -37,11 +38,12 @@ Default: \code{50}.}
 \item{colors}{A vector of display colors, if none is given a default list
 (of length 24) is provided.}
 
+\item{layout}{A layout for the graph.  If none is specified, FR-graph
+drawing algorithm is used.}
+
 \item{...}{Optional parameters to pass to the \code{\link[igraph:plot.igraph]{igraph::plot.igraph}}.
 function. Some commonly passed arguments include:
 \itemize{
-\item \code{layout}  A layout for the graph.  If none is specified, FR-graph
-drawing algorithm is used.
 \item \code{vertex.label} A vector containing label names. If none is given,
 the rownames of \code{c} are used
 \item \code{vertex.size} A numeric value for vertex size (default = \code{1})