Make it clearer / easier to find how to cite Iris

[wjbenfold]

📚 Documentation

It's currently pretty hard to work out how to cite Iris (and not in the docs). I think the only indication is that we have a Zenodo tag on our GitHub README. I'd suggest improving this.

Examples from elsewhere (both what they use and how you find out about it):

• Pandas use Zenodo and a paper: https://pandas.pydata.org/about/citing.html
• Numpy have a paper: https://numpy.org/citing-numpy/
• SciPy have a paper: https://scipy.org/citing-scipy/
• Matplotlib have a paper and a Zenodo DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/project/citing.html

[tkknight]

We have a docs page for this but I expect it could do with an overhaul.

https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide/citation.html#citing-iris

[wjbenfold]

Odd - when I search the docs for the word "cite" I don't get that page, only a very old what's new entry (which does link to that page). Maybe it's just a matter of cross-linking a bit better and updating that page

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[trexfeathers]

@HGWright any thoughts on the status of this? I've lost track if we've already done the "make it clearer / easier" step

[HGWright]

@trexfeathers Thanks for the reminder I had forgoten about this. It still needs work to finish #5161.