Problem

The citing matplotlib page provides the citation in bibtex form, which reference managers like Zotero don't have a way to paste in to process. But if you download a .bib entry, Zotero will pick it up and process it.

Proposed Solution

While yes, folks can copy & paste the bibtex entry into a text file, that introduces extra step(s) for a situation where the fix is relatively straightforward:

1. pull the bibtex block out of /doc/citing.rst into its own file
2. include it with highlighting using the literalinclude directive
3. add a download link using the download role.

Additional context and prior art

The ieeexplore citation has a 'download' option: