How to cite the R package gems

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the gems package (v1.1.1; Blaser et al., 2015).

Reference list entry

Blaser, N., Salazar Vizcaya, L., Estill, J., Zahnd, C., Kalesan, B., Egger, M., Keiser, O., & Gsponer, T. (2015). gems: An R Package for Simulating from Disease Progression Models. In Journal of Statistical Software (Vol. 64, Issue 10, pp. 1–22). http://www.jstatsoft.org/v64/i10/

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 gems package v1.1.1 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Blaser N, Salazar Vizcaya L, Estill J, Zahnd C, Kalesan B, Egger M, et al. gems: An R Package for Simulating from Disease Progression Models [Internet]. Vol. 64, Journal of Statistical Software. 2015. p. 1–22. Available from: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v64/i10/

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@MISC{Blaser2015-qz,
  title   = "{gems}: An {R} Package for Simulating from Disease Progression
             Models",
  author  = "Blaser, Nello and Salazar Vizcaya, Luisa and Estill, Janne and
             Zahnd, Cindy and Kalesan, Bindu and Egger, Matthias and Keiser,
             Olivia and Gsponer, Thomas",
  journal = "Journal of Statistical Software",
  volume  =  64,
  number  =  10,
  pages   = "1--22",
  year    =  2015,
  url     = "http://www.jstatsoft.org/v64/i10/"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - MISC
AU  - Blaser, Nello
AU  - Salazar Vizcaya, Luisa
AU  - Estill, Janne
AU  - Zahnd, Cindy
AU  - Kalesan, Bindu
AU  - Egger, Matthias
AU  - Keiser, Olivia
AU  - Gsponer, Thomas
TI  - gems: An R Package for Simulating from Disease Progression Models
T2  - Journal of Statistical Software
VL  - 64
IS  - 10
SP  - 1-22
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015
UR  - http://www.jstatsoft.org/v64/i10/
ER  -

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gems R package release history

Version	Release date
1.1.0	2016-11-29
1.0.0	2015-03-11
0.9.5	2014-05-27
0.9.4	2014-01-30
0.9.3	2013-07-08
0.9.2	2013-06-19
0.9.1	2013-02-18
0.9	2013-02-01