Add "Citation..." option to the Help Menu

USE CASE: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

As a user who is writing a paper and wants to cite the TreeView software, I would like to easily find out how to cite it and I think the first reasonable place to look would be the Help menu (or perhaps the About info under the app menu [/help menu if on windows]).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE AN ISSUE (OR TRIGGER A NEW FEATURE)

Select Help->Citation
Click something to Copy citation to clipboard

CURRENT BEHAVIOR

There is no citation info accessible anywhere in the software.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

There should either be a citation option in the help menu and/or a citation listed in the About window (whether accessible from the app menu or the help menu depending on OS).

The citation should appearance should be "clean" (i.e. no border, no different color background). A button to copy to clipboard should appear to the right of the citation, vertically centered.

An "OK" button should appear in the lower right-hand corner which dismisses the dialog. The dialog's close button should be the only titlebar button that works. The rest should be grayed out.

DEVELOPERS ONLY SECTION

SUGGESTED CHANGE (Pseudocode optional)

Create a citation dialog (using an existing custom dialog class) with the citation text selectable/copiable and a way to copy the citation with a single click.

FILES AFFECTED (where the changes will be implemented) - developers only

unknown

LEVEL OF EFFORT - developers only

minor

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