Make homepage mention JDH matplotlib citation

dmcdougall · dmcdougall · commit 0ec706f385a8 · 2012-12-02T00:28:17.000-06:00
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
@@ -75,6 +74,7 @@ <h3>Navigation</h3>
         <li><a href="search.html">search</a>|&nbsp;</li>
         <li><a href="examples/index.html">examples</a>|&nbsp;</li>
         <li><a href="gallery.html">gallery</a>|&nbsp;</li>
+        <li><a href="citing.html">citation</a>|&nbsp;</li>
         <li><a href="contents.html">docs</a> &raquo;</li>
  
       </ul>
@@ -267,6 +267,14 @@ <h1>Toolkits</h1>
 <a href="http://matplotlib.github.com/basemap">basemap</a>, 3d plotting with <a href="mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/index.html">mplot3d</a>, axes and axis helpers in <a href="mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/index.html">axes_grid</a> and more.
  </p>
 
+<h1>Citing matplotlib</h1>
+
+<p>Several of the authors of matplotlib are connected with academic and scientific research, so it is important for
+us to be able to show the impact of our work in other projects and fields.
+
+If matplotlib contributes to a project that leads to a scientific publication, please acknowledge this fact by
+citing the project. You can use this <a href="citing.html">ready-made citation entry</a>.</p>
+
   <h1>Open source</h1>
 
 <p>Please
