setup citation

Author: cvanelteren

.zenodo.json

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+{
+  "title": "UltraPlot: A succinct wrapper for Matplotlib",
+  "upload_type": "software",
+  "description": "UltraPlot provides a compact and extensible API on top of Matplotlib, inspired by ProPlot. It simplifies the creation of scientific plots with consistent layout, colorbars, and shared axes.",
+  "creators": [
+    {
+      "name": "van Elteren, Casper",
+      "orcid": "0000-0001-9862-8936",
+      "affiliation": "University of Amsterdam, Polder Center, Institute for Advanced Study Amsterdam"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "Becker, Matthew",
+      "orcid": "0000-0001-7774-2246",
+      "affiliation": "Argonne National Laboratory: Lemont, US"
+    }
+  ],
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "keywords": [
+    "matplotlib",
+    "scientific visualization",
+    "plotting",
+    "wrapper",
+    "python"
+  ],
+  "related_identifiers": [
+    {
+      "relation": "isDerivedFrom",
+      "identifier": "https://github.com/lukelbd/proplot",
+      "scheme": "url"
+    },
+    {
+      "relation": "isDerivedFrom",
+      "identifier": "https://matplotlib.org/",
+      "scheme": "url"
+    }
+  ],
+  "version": "1.57",
+  "publication_date": "2025-01-01" // need to fix
+}

CITATON.cff

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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use UltraPlot in your work, please cite it using the following metadata."
+title: "UltraPlot"
+authors:
+  - family-names: "van Elteren"
+    given-names: "Casper"
+    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9862-8936"
+  - family-names: "Becker"
+    given-names: "Matthew"
+    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7774-2246"
+date-released: "2025-01-01"
+version: "1.57"
+doi: "10.5281/zenodo.XXXXXXX"  # need to add
+repository-code: "https://github.com/Ultraplot/UltraPlot"
+license: "MIT"
+keywords:
+  - plotting
+  - matplotlib
+  - scientific visualization
+  - wrapper
+references:
+  - type: software
+    name: "ProPlot"
+    authors:
+      - family-names: "Davis"
+        given-names: "Luke"
+    url: "https://github.com/lukelbd/proplot"
+  - type: software
+    name: "Matplotlib"
+    authors:
+      - family-names: "Hunter"
+        given-names: "John D."
+    url: "https://matplotlib.org/"

README.rst

@@ -116,6 +116,17 @@ To install a development version of UltraPlot, you can use
 or clone the repository and run ``pip install -e .``
 inside the ``ultraplot`` folder.
 
+```bibtex
+@software{vanElteren2025,
+  author       = {Casper van Elteren and Matthew Becker},
+  title        = {UltraPlot: A succinct wrapper for Matplotlib},
+  year         = {2025},
+  version      = {1.5.7},
+  publisher    = {GitHub},
+  url          = {https://github.com/Ultraplot/UltraPlot}
+}
+```
+
 
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