How to cite the R package bookdown
bookdown is a popular R package that is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bookdown/index.html. By citing R packages in your paper you lay the grounds for others to be able to reproduce your analysis and secondly you are acknowledging the time and work people have spent creating the package.
APA citation
Formatted according to the APA Publication Manual 7th edition. Simply copy it to the References page as is.
The minimal requirement is to cite the R package in text along with the version number. Additionally, you can include the reference list entry the authors of the bookdown package have suggested.
Example of an in-text citation
Analysis of the data was done using the bookdown package (v0.21; Xie, 2020).
Reference list entry
Xie, Y. (2020). bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown. https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown
Vancouver citation
Formatted according to Vancouver style. Simply copy it to the references section as is.
Example of an in-text citation
Analysis of the data was done using the bookdown package v0.21 (1).
Reference list entry
1.Xie Y. bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown [Internet]. 2020. Available from: https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown
BibTeX
Reference entry in BibTeX format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.
@MISC{Xie2020-es, title = "bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with {R} Markdown", author = "Xie, Yihui", year = 2020, url = "https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown" }
RIS
Reference entry in RIS format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.
TY - MISC AU - Xie, Yihui TI - bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown PY - 2020 DA - 2020 UR - https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown ER -
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bookdown R package release history
Version | Release date |
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0.20 | 2020-06-23 |
0.19 | 2020-05-15 |
0.18 | 2020-03-05 |
0.17 | 2020-01-11 |
0.16 | 2019-11-23 |
0.15 | 2019-11-12 |
0.14 | 2019-10-01 |
0.13 | 2019-08-21 |
0.12 | 2019-07-11 |
0.11 | 2019-05-28 |
0.10 | 2019-05-10 |
0.9 | 2018-12-21 |
0.8 | 2018-12-03 |
0.7 | 2018-02-18 |
0.6 | 2018-01-25 |
0.5 | 2017-08-20 |
0.4 | 2017-05-20 |
0.3 | 2016-11-28 |
0.2 | 2016-11-12 |
0.1 | 2016-07-13 |