Add a method to save citation information

[SarahAlidoost]

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Closes #91

[bouweandela]

Thanks for all the improvements! I added a few more comments.

[bouweandela]

@mattiarighi Could you please test? It would be good if you could also check if the runtime of a recipe with lots of input data, like perfmetrics, is not affected too badly.

[bouweandela]

We should probably also make a new release for this.

[mattiarighi]

recipe_permetrics_CMIP5.yml runtimes:

• in master: [25:36.240417, 27:53.705252, 27:59.009339, 25:46.094682, 25:23.925156]; median = 25:46.094682.
• in save_citation: [25:40.530607, 25:36.464112, 26:06.032161, 25:30.391732, 25:20.122022]; median = 25:36.464112.

No difference.