diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a77258c3b4..17cac3ed23 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ and [C](https://tskit.dev/tskit/docs/stable/c-api.html) API. A Rust API is provi
 
 Most users of `tskit` will use the python API as it provides a convenient, high-level API
 to access, analyse and create tree sequences. Full documentation is
-[here](https://tskit.dev/tskit/docs/stable/python-api.html).   
+[here](https://tskit.dev/tskit/docs/stable/python-api.html).
 
 #### C API
 [![C99](https://img.shields.io/badge/Language-C99-steelblue.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99)
@@ -71,3 +71,14 @@ python -m pip install tskit
 # or
 conda install -c conda-forge tskit
 ```
+
+## Funding and acknowledgements
+
+The tskit software has benefited from input and contributions from
+too many people to list here
+(but see the author list for [the tskit paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09649)).
+We also gratefully acknowledge funding from the Robertson Foundation, the NIH
+(research grants HG011395 and HG012473), and the NSF 
+(research grant [OAC-2104115](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=2104115)),
+that has supported core tskit development.
+
diff --git a/docs/citation.md b/docs/citation.md
index fa46737408..42607b2974 100644
--- a/docs/citation.md
+++ b/docs/citation.md
@@ -2,7 +2,25 @@
 
 # Citing tskit
 
-If you use `tskit` in your work, we recommend citing the [2024 ARG Genetics paper](<https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae100>) and the [2016 msprime PLOS Computational Biology paper](<http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004842>):
+If you use `tskit` in your work, we recommend citing the "tskit paper":
+> Ben Jeffery, Yan Wong, Kevin Thornton, Georgia Tsambos, Gertjan Bisschop, Yun
+> Deng, E. Castedo Ellerman, Thomas B. Forest, Halley Fritze, Daniel Goldstein,
+> Gregor Gorjanc, Graham Gower, Simon Gravel, Jeremy Guez, Benjamin C. Haller,
+> Andrew D. Kern, Lloyd Kirk, Ivan Krukov, Hanbin Lee, Brieuc Lehmann,
+> Hossameldin Loay, Matthew M. Osmond, Duncan S. Palmer, Nathaniel S. Pope, Aaron
+> P. Ragsdale, Duncan Robertson, Murillo F. Rodrigues, Hugo van Kemenade, Clemens
+> L. Weiß, Anthony Wilder Wohns, Shing H. Zhan, Brian C. Zhang, Marianne Aspbury,
+> Nikolas A. Baya, Saurabh Belsare, Arjun Biddanda, Francisco Campuzano Jiménez,
+> Ariella Gladstein, Bing Guo, Savita Karthikeyan, Warren W. Kretzschmar, Inés
+> Rebollo, Kumar Saunack, Ruhollah Shemirani, Alexis Simon, Chris Smith, Jeet
+> Sukumaran, Jonathan Terhorst, Per Unneberg, Ao Zhang, Peter Ralph, Jerome
+> Kelleher, *Population-scale Ancestral Recombination Graphs with tskit 1.0*,
+> arXiv:2602.09649v2,
+> doi: [10.48550/arXiv.2602.09649](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.09649)
+
+For citations that discuss ARGs and how these are represented in a tree sequence,
+we recommend the [2024 ARG Genetics paper](<https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae100>)
+and the [2016 msprime PLOS Computational Biology paper](<http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004842>):
 > Yan Wong, Anastasia Ignatieva, Jere Koskela, Gregor Gorjanc, Anthony W 
 > Wohns, Jerome Kelleher, *A general and efficient representation of ancestral 
 > recombination graphs*, Genetics, Volume 228, Issue 1, September 2024, iyae100, 
@@ -24,6 +42,29 @@ If you use summary statistics, please cite the
 Bibtex records:
 
 ```bibtex
+@misc{jeffery2026tskit,
+      title={Population-scale Ancestral Recombination Graphs with tskit 1.0}, 
+      author={Ben Jeffery and Yan Wong and Kevin Thornton and Georgia Tsambos
+              and Gertjan Bisschop and Yun Deng and E. Castedo Ellerman and Thomas B. Forest
+              and Halley Fritze and Daniel Goldstein and Gregor Gorjanc and Graham Gower and
+              Simon Gravel and Jeremy Guez and Benjamin C. Haller and Andrew D. Kern and
+              Lloyd Kirk and Ivan Krukov and Hanbin Lee and Brieuc Lehmann and Hossameldin
+              Loay and Matthew M. Osmond and Duncan S. Palmer and Nathaniel S. Pope and Aaron
+              P. Ragsdale and Duncan Robertson and Murillo F. Rodrigues and Hugo van Kemenade
+              and Clemens L. Weiß and Anthony Wilder Wohns and Shing H. Zhan and Brian C.
+              Zhang and Marianne Aspbury and Nikolas A. Baya and Saurabh Belsare and Arjun
+              Biddanda and Francisco Campuzano Jiménez and Ariella Gladstein and Bing Guo and
+              Savita Karthikeyan and Warren W. Kretzschmar and Inés Rebollo and Kumar Saunack
+              and Ruhollah Shemirani and Alexis Simon and Chris Smith and Jeet Sukumaran and
+              Jonathan Terhorst and Per Unneberg and Ao Zhang and Peter Ralph and Jerome
+              Kelleher},
+      year={2026},
+      eprint={2602.09649},
+      archivePrefix={arXiv},
+      primaryClass={q-bio.PE},
+      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09649}, 
+}
+
 @article{Wong2024ARGs,
   author    = {Wong, Yan and Ignatieva, Anastasia and Koskela, Jere and Gorjanc, Gregor and 
                Wohns, Anthony W and Kelleher, Jerome},
@@ -57,4 +98,15 @@ Bibtex records:
   year      = {2020},
   doi       = {10.1534/genetics.120.303253}
 }
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```
+
+# Funding and acknowledgements
+
+
+The tskit software has benefited from input and contributions from
+too many people to list here (but see the author list above).
+We also gratefully acknowledge funding from the Robertson Foundation, the NIH
+(research grants HG011395 and HG012473), and the NSF 
+(research grant [OAC-2104115](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=2104115)),
+that has supported core tskit development.
+