How to cite the R package castor

castor is a popular R package that is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/castor/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 7^th edition. Simply copy it to the References page as is.

APA

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 castor package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the castor package (v1.6.6; Louca & Doebeli, 2018).

Reference list entry

Louca, S., & Doebeli, M. (2018). Efficient comparative phylogenetics on large trees. Bioinformatics, 34(6), 1053–1055.

Vancouver citation

Formatted according to Vancouver style. Simply copy it to the references section as is.

Vancouver

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the castor package v1.6.6 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Louca S, Doebeli M. Efficient comparative phylogenetics on large trees. Bioinformatics. 2018 Mar 15;34(6):1053–5.

BibTeX

Reference entry in BibTeX format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Louca2018-nv,
  title     = "Efficient comparative phylogenetics on large trees",
  author    = "Louca, Stilianos and Doebeli, Michael",
  journal   = "Bioinformatics",
  publisher = "Oxford University Press (OUP)",
  volume    =  34,
  number    =  6,
  pages     = "1053--1055",
  month     =  mar,
  year      =  2018,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx701",
  copyright = "https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/about\_us/legal/notices",
  language  = "en",
  issn      = "1367-4803, 1460-2059",
  doi       = "10.1093/bioinformatics/btx701"
}

RIS

Reference entry in RIS format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Louca, Stilianos
AU  - Doebeli, Michael
AD  - Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
      BC, Canada; Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia,
      Vancouver, BC, Canada; Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British
      Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Zoology, University of
      British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Mathematics,
      University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
TI  - Efficient comparative phylogenetics on large trees
T2  - Bioinformatics
VL  - 34
IS  - 6
SP  - 1053-1055
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/3/15
PB  - Oxford University Press (OUP)
SN  - 1367-4803
DO  - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx701
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx701
ER  -

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castor R package release history

Version	Release date
1.6.5	2021-01-06
1.6.4	2020-10-26
1.6.3	2020-08-27
1.6.2	2020-07-19
1.6.1	2020-06-29
1.5.7	2020-04-12
1.5.5	2020-01-10
1.5.4	2020-01-08
1.5.3	2019-12-20
1.5.0	2019-11-01
1.4.3	2019-09-20
1.4.2	2019-07-30
1.4.1	2019-06-16
1.4.0	2019-06-14
1.3.6	2019-05-06
1.3.5	2019-02-15
1.3.4	2018-08-16
1.3.3	2018-04-11
1.3.2	2018-01-20
1.3	2017-11-29
1.2.2	2017-09-27
1.2.1	2017-09-24
1.2	2017-09-23
1.1	2017-06-02
1.0	2017-05-20