diff --git a/docs/src/developers_guide/release.rst b/docs/src/developers_guide/release.rst
index de7aa6c719..bae77a7d21 100644
--- a/docs/src/developers_guide/release.rst
+++ b/docs/src/developers_guide/release.rst
@@ -277,6 +277,11 @@ Post Release Steps
 #. On main, make a new ``latest.rst`` from ``latest.rst.template`` and update
    the include statement and the toctree in ``index.rst`` to point at the new
    ``latest.rst``.
+#. Consider updating ``docs/src/userguide/citation.rst`` on ``main`` to include 
+   the version number, date and `Zenodo DOI <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.595182>`_ 
+   of the new release. Ideally this would be updated before the release, but 
+   the DOI for the new version is only available once the release has been 
+   created in GitHub.
 
 
 .. _SciTools/iris: https://github.com/SciTools/iris
diff --git a/docs/src/userguide/citation.rst b/docs/src/userguide/citation.rst
index 0a3a85fb89..1498b9dfe1 100644
--- a/docs/src/userguide/citation.rst
+++ b/docs/src/userguide/citation.rst
@@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ For example::
 
  @manual{Iris,
  author = {{Met Office}},
- title = {Iris: A Python package for analysing and visualising meteorological and oceanographic data sets},
- edition = {v1.2},
- year = {2010 - 2013},
+ title = {Iris: A powerful, format-agnostic, and community-driven Python package for analysing and visualising Earth science data },
+ edition = {v3.4},
+ year = {2010 - 2022},
  address = {Exeter, Devon },
- url = {http://scitools.org.uk/}
+ url = {http://scitools.org.uk/},
+ doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7386117}
  }
 
 
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ Suggested format::
 
 For example::
 
- Iris. v1.2. 28-Feb-2013. Met Office. UK. https://github.com/SciTools/iris/archive/v1.2.0.tar.gz 01-03-2013
+ Iris. v3.4. 1-Dec-2022. Met Office. UK. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7386117 22-12-2022
 
 
 ********************
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ Suggested format::
 
 For example::
 
- Iris. Met Office. git@github.com:SciTools/iris.git 06-03-2013
+ Iris. Met Office. git@github.com:SciTools/iris.git 22-12-2022
 
 .. _How to cite and describe software: https://software.ac.uk/how-cite-software
 
diff --git a/docs/src/whatsnew/latest.rst b/docs/src/whatsnew/latest.rst
index 06a116c5d7..2cdc9cf1f5 100644
--- a/docs/src/whatsnew/latest.rst
+++ b/docs/src/whatsnew/latest.rst
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ This document explains the changes made to Iris for this release
    the light version (not dark) while we make the docs dark mode friendly
    (:pull:`5129`)
 
+#. `@jonseddon`_ updated the citation to a more recent version of Iris. (:pull:`5116`)
+
 #. `@rcomer`_ linked the :obj:`~iris.analysis.PERCENTILE` aggregator from the
    :obj:`~iris.analysis.MEDIAN` docstring, noting that the former handles lazy
    data. (:pull:`5128`)