diff --git a/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS b/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
deleted file mode 100644
index 581d45ab3cd0e3d42b86b5a52c90e1a00e3feafe..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-==========================
-Suggested acknowledgements
-==========================
-
-Researchers, please note that even though :doc:`Kwant is Free Software
-<license>`, scientific integrity obliges to give appropriate credit. If you
-write a scientific paper whose results have been obtained with the help of
-Kwant, please acknowledge the work of the :doc:`people that have developed it
-<authors>`.
-
-Reference to Kwant paper to be added.
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index e8ab87cbedbe0873df2db6bae339e4d023e42213..e40107fa2c357dd115357cf9e501f96561f924c0 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -20,7 +20,18 @@ Other people that have contributed to Kwant include
* Daniel Jaschke
* Joseph Weston
--------------------------------------------------------------
+(To find out who exactly wrote a certain part of Kwant, please use the "blame"
+feature of `Git <http://git-scm.com/>`_, the version control system.)
-To find out who exactly wrote a certain part of Kwant, please use the "blame"
-feature of `git <http://git-scm.com/>`_, the version control system.
+We thank Christoph Gohlke for the creation of Windows installers.
+
+
+Funding
+-------
+
+During the development of Kwant 1.0, A. R. Akhmerov and M. Wimmer were supported
+by the Dutch Science Foundation NWO/FOM and by the ERC Advanced Investigator
+Grant of C. W. J. Beenakker who enthousiastically supported this project.
+A. R. Akhmerov was partially supported by a Lawrence Golub fellowship.
+C. W. Groth and X. Waintal were supported by the ERC Consolidator Grant MesoQMC.
+X. Waintal also acknowledges support from the STREP ConceptGraphene.
diff --git a/CITING b/CITING
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c3cc7e91a235b2c42f0a1f35f964c0d54f6d5ec7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CITING
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+==========================
+Suggested acknowledgements
+==========================
+
+We provide Kwant as free software under a :doc:`BSD license <license>` as a
+service to the physics community. If you have used Kwant for work that has lead
+to a scientific publication, please mention this explicitly in the text body.
+In addition, we ask you to cite the main paper that introduces Kwant:
+
+TO-BE-FILLED-IN
+
+If you have profited from the quantum transport functionality of Kwant, please
+also cite the upcoming paper that describes the relevant algorithms. The
+reference will be added to this document later, and will also be available at
+`<http://kwant-project.org/citing.html>`_.
+
+Kwant owes much of its current performance to the use of the `MUMPS
+<http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS/>`_ library for solving systems of sparse linear
+equations. If you have done high-performance calculations, we suggest citing
+P.R. Amestoy, I.S. Duff, J.S. Koster, J.Y. L’Excellent, SIAM. J. Matrix Anal. &
+Appl. 23 (1), 15 (2001).
+
+Finally, if you use the routine for generation of circular ensembles of random
+matrices, please cite F. Mezzadri, Notices Am. Math. Soc. 54, 592 (2007).
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf7aacac623164d7050749640a3f98daaca6132f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTE
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+=====================
+Contributing to Kwant
+=====================
+
+We view Kwant as not just a package with fixed functionality, but also as a
+framework to implement different physics-related algorithms using a common set
+of concepts and, if possible, a shared interface. We have designed it leaving
+room for growth, and planning to extend it.
+
+We welcome both external contributions that are well-integrated with Kwant's
+core functionality, such as new solvers type, or algorithms for calculation of
+other observables, as well as code modules that are relatively independent but
+useful with Kwant (such as the random matrix theory module `kwant.rmt`).
+
+The complete development history of Kwant is `publicly available
+<http://git.kwant-project.org/kwant>`_. Any external contribution will be
+clearly marked as such, and papers where it is described (if any) will be
+properly mentioned. Contact us if you are interested in submitting a
+contribution.
+
+Technical advice
+----------------
+
+We use the version control system `Git <http://git-scm.com/>`_ to coordinate the
+development of Kwant. If you are new to Git, we invite you to learn its
+basics. (There's a plethora of information available on the Web.)
+
+It is best to base your development on the latest version of Kwant. ::
+
+ git clone http://git.kwant-project.org/kwant
+
+To work on Kwant itself it is useful to build it in-place so that it does not
+have to be re-installed after each change. This can be done with the following
+command ::
+
+ python setup.py build_ext -i
+
+The ``kwant`` subdirectory of the source distribution will be thus turned into
+a proper Python package that can be imported. To be able to import Kwant from
+within Python, one can either work in the root directory of the distribution
+(where the subdirectory ``kwant`` is located), or make a (symbolic) link from
+somewhere in the Python search path to the the package subdirectory.
+
+Some things to keep in mind:
+
+* Please keep the code consistent by adhering to the prevailing naming and
+ formatting conventions. We generally follow the `"Style Guide for Python
+ Code" <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_ For docstrings, we follow
+ `NumPy's "Docstring Standard"
+ <http://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt>`_ and
+ `Python's "Docstring Conventions"
+ <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/>`_.
+
+* Write tests for all the important functionality you add. Be sure not to
+ break existing tests.
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 9190b19a9f3c454f477cb479ffdec1e5890dd051..4d3fa364874a524d2db7f5bf929a29105aee6e57 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -485,34 +485,3 @@ Because of some quirks of how Sphinx works, it might be necessary to execute
``make clean`` between building HTML and PDF documentation. If this is not
done, Sphinx may mistakenly use PNG files for PDF output or other problems may
appear.
-
-
-Hacking
-=======
-
-To work on Kwant itself it is useful to build it in-place. This can be done
-with the following command ::
-
- python setup.py build_ext -i
-
-The ``kwant`` subdirectory of the source distribution will be thus turned into
-a proper python package which can be imported. To be able to import Kwant from
-within python, one can either work in the root directory of the distribution
-(where the subdirectory ``kwant`` is located), or make a (symbolic) link from
-somewhere in the Python search path to the the package subdirectory.
-
-Some conventions to keep in mind:
-
-* Write tests for all the important functionality you add. Be sure not to
- break existing tests.
-
-* Please keep the code consistent by adhering to the prevailing naming and
- formatting conventions. We generally follow the `"Style Guide for Python
- Code" <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_ For docstrings, we follow
- `NumPy's "Docstring Standard"
- <http://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt>`_ and
- `Python's "Docstring Conventions"
- <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/>`_.
-
-Several modules are written in `Cython <http://cython.org/>`_ (.pyx file name
-extension). You will need Cython if you want to modify them.
diff --git a/README b/README
index cf7c00d1fa79ee10c376a20bd97a4d6cba49c82f..5e6f2df0b2168ca35e6b4c948acb6de662aec32d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ relations, modes, wave functions, various Green’s functions, and
out-of-equilibrium local quantities. Other computations involving tight-binding
Hamiltonians can be implemented easily.
-See also the files INSTALL, LICENSE, AUTHORS, and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in this
-directory.
+See also the files INSTALL, LICENSE, AUTHORS, CITING, and CONTRIBUTE
+in this directory.
diff --git a/doc/source/pre/acknowledgements.rst b/doc/source/pre/acknowledgements.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a50677aa6eb1e60cae1135afec68132fc3cc521..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/doc/source/pre/acknowledgements.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-.. include:: ../../../ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
diff --git a/doc/source/pre/citing.rst b/doc/source/pre/citing.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..257c39ef17719d5dea24e7c374dabd51ecb426e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/pre/citing.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.. include:: ../../../CITING
diff --git a/doc/source/pre/contribute.rst b/doc/source/pre/contribute.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3aa17bcbb3d5666cf601a02a753452afc6176cad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/pre/contribute.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.. include:: ../../../CONTRIBUTE
diff --git a/doc/source/pre/index.rst b/doc/source/pre/index.rst
index 6b0ef8cb990c66158b3441bc4ffa9221658a18f5..91f0ca555207150d26b79957fede35500722cb39 100644
--- a/doc/source/pre/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/pre/index.rst
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ Preliminaries
whatsnew/index
install
authors
- acknowledgements
+ citing
license
+ contribute