diff --git a/docs/user/authentication.rst b/docs/user/authentication.rst
index 58175623..2b7a8690 100644
--- a/docs/user/authentication.rst
+++ b/docs/user/authentication.rst
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ OAuth 1 Authentication
 ----------------------
 
 A common form of authentication for several web APIs is OAuth. The ``requests-oauthlib``
-library allows Requests users to easily make OAuth authenticated requests::
+library allows Requests users to easily make OAuth 1 authenticated requests::
 
     >>> import requests
     >>> from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1
@@ -76,6 +76,17 @@ For more information on how to OAuth flow works, please see the official `OAuth`
 For examples and documentation on requests-oauthlib, please see the `requests_oauthlib`_
 repository on GitHub
 
+OAuth 2 and OpenID Connect Authentication
+-----------------------------------------
+
+The ``requests-oauthlib`` library also handles OAuth 2, the authentication mechanism
+underpinning OpenID Connect. See the `requests-oauthlib OAuth2 documentation`_ for
+details of the various OAuth 2 credential management flows:
+
+* `Web Application Flow`_
+* `Mobile Application Flow`_
+* `Legacy Application Flow`_
+* `Backend Application Flow`_
 
 Other Authentication
 --------------------
@@ -123,6 +134,11 @@ Further examples can be found under the `Requests organization`_ and in the
 
 .. _OAuth: http://oauth.net/
 .. _requests_oauthlib: https://github.com/requests/requests-oauthlib
+.. _requests-oauthlib OAuth2 documentation: http://requests-oauthlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2_workflow.html
+.. _Web Application Flow: http://requests-oauthlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2_workflow.html#web-application-flow
+.. _Mobile Application Flow: http://requests-oauthlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2_workflow.html#mobile-application-flow
+.. _Legacy Application Flow:  http://requests-oauthlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2_workflow.html#legacy-application-flow
+.. _Backend Application Flow:  http://requests-oauthlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2_workflow.html#backend-application-flow
 .. _Kerberos: https://github.com/requests/requests-kerberos
 .. _NTLM: https://github.com/requests/requests-ntlm
 .. _Requests organization: https://github.com/requests