diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 0384b71b..3f10af3e 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -45,13 +45,14 @@
     "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
     "sphinx.ext.doctest",
     "sphinx.ext.viewcode",
+    "myst_parser",
 ]
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ["_templates"]
 
 # The suffix of source filenames.
-source_suffix = ".rst"
+source_suffix = [".rst", ".md"]
 
 # The encoding of source files.
 # source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
diff --git a/doc/source/contributing.md b/doc/source/contributing.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..78caf34e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/contributing.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+```{include} ../CONTRIBUTING.md
+```
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
index 904200f5..cfa6dcf7 100644
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Sections
    api
    artifact
    build
-   using_jenkinsapi
+   contributing
 
 Important Links
 ---------------
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 0d07d562..efc2b376 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ astroid>=1.4.8
 pylint>=1.7.1
 tox>=2.3.1
 mock
+myst-parser
 codecov
 requests_kerberos
 flake8