How to cite the R package contact

contact is a popular R package that is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/contact/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 contact package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the contact package (v1.2.5; Farthing et al., 2020).

Reference list entry

Farthing, T. S., Dawson, D. E., Sanderson, M. W., & Lanzas, C. (2020). Accounting for space and uncertainty in real‐time location system‐derived contact networks. Ecology and Evolution, 10(11), 4702–4715.

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 contact package v1.2.5 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Farthing TS, Dawson DE, Sanderson MW, Lanzas C. Accounting for space and uncertainty in real‐time location system‐derived contact networks. Ecol Evol. 2020 Jun;10(11):4702–15.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

% The entry below contains non-ASCII chars that could not be converted
% to a LaTeX equivalent.
@ARTICLE{Farthing2020-sd,
  title     = "Accounting for space and uncertainty in real‐time location
               system‐derived contact networks",
  author    = "Farthing, Trevor S and Dawson, Daniel E and Sanderson, Michael W
               and Lanzas, Cristina",
  journal   = "Ecol. Evol.",
  publisher = "Wiley",
  volume    =  10,
  number    =  11,
  pages     = "4702--4715",
  month     =  jun,
  year      =  2020,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6225",
  copyright = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  language  = "en",
  issn      = "2045-7758",
  doi       = "10.1002/ece3.6225"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Farthing, Trevor S
AU  - Dawson, Daniel E
AU  - Sanderson, Michael W
AU  - Lanzas, Cristina
AD  - Department of Population Health and Pathobiology College of Veterinary
      Medicine North Carolina State University Raleigh NC USA; Department of
      Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology College of Veterinary Medicine Center
      for Outcomes Research and Epidemiology Kansas State University Manhattan
      KS USA
TI  - Accounting for space and uncertainty in real‐time location system‐derived
      contact networks
T2  - Ecol. Evol.
VL  - 10
IS  - 11
SP  - 4702-4715
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/6
PB  - Wiley
SN  - 2045-7758
DO  - 10.1002/ece3.6225
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6225
ER  -

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contact R package release history

Version	Release date
1.2.4	2020-07-21
1.2.3	2020-06-02
1.2.2	2020-04-13
1.2.1	2020-03-19
1.2.0	2020-03-16
1.0.1	2019-10-30