diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5ea7c65c27..f484d9c37a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -61,16 +61,14 @@ flopy/.idea
 
 examples/Notebooks/data
 examples/Notebooks/temp
-examples/Notebooks/.ipynb_checkpoints
 examples/FAQ/temp
-examples/FAQ/.ipynb_checkpoints
 examples/Testing/.idea
 examples/Testing/data
-examples/Testing/.ipynb_checkpoints
 examples/scripts/data
 examples/groundwater_paper/Notebooks/temp
-examples/groundwater_paper/Notebooks/.ipynb_checkpoints
 
+# ignore all .ipynb_checkpoints
+.ipynb_checkpoints
 
 autotest/*.bin
 autotest/*.dat
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index f363b751f1..6a42daa312 100755
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ We want to fix all the issues as soon as possible, but before fixing a bug we ne
 - version of FloPy used
 - and most importantly - a use-case that fails (ideally an example that uses flopy to generate FloPy input files - see `t0**_test.py` python scripts in the `autotest/` directory)
 
-We will be insisting on a minimal minimal, complete, and verifiable example in order to save maintainers time and ultimately be able to fix more bugs. We understand that sometimes it might be hard to extract essentials bits of code from a larger code-base but we really need to isolate the problem before we can fix it.
+We will be insisting on a minimal, complete, and verifiable example in order to save maintainers time and ultimately be able to fix more bugs. We understand that sometimes it might be hard to extract essentials bits of code from a larger code-base but we really need to isolate the problem before we can fix it.
 
 Unfortunately, we are not able to investigate / fix bugs without a minimal, complete, and verifiable example, so if we don't hear back from you we are going to close an issue that doesn't have enough info to be reproduced.
 
diff --git a/release/make-release.py b/release/make-release.py
index e5314e7a71..4488308b68 100644
--- a/release/make-release.py
+++ b/release/make-release.py
@@ -238,7 +238,9 @@ def update_readme_markdown(vmajor, vminor, vmicro):
             if not is_approved:
                 sb = ' — release candidate'
             line = '[Bakker, M., Post, V., Langevin, C.D., Hughes, J.D., ' + \
-                   'White, J.T., Starn, J.J., and Fienen, M.N., ' + \
+                   'White, J.T., Leaf, A.T., Paulinski, S.R., Larsen, J.D., ' + \
+                   'Toews, M.W., Morway, E.D., Bellino, J.C., Starn, J.J., ' + \
+                   'and Fienen, M.N., ' + \
                    '{}, '.format(now.year) + \
                    'FloPy v{}{}: '.format(version, sb) + \
                    'U.S. Geological Survey Software Release, ' + \