How to cite the R package gratis

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the gratis package (v0.2.1; Kang et al., 2020).

Reference list entry

Kang, Y., Li, F., Hyndman, R. J., O’Hara-Wild, M., & Zhao, B. (2020). gratis: GeneRAting TIme Series with diverse and controllable characteristics. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gratis

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 gratis package v0.2.1 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Kang Y, Li F, Hyndman RJ, O’Hara-Wild M, Zhao B. gratis: GeneRAting TIme Series with diverse and controllable characteristics [Internet]. 2020. Available from: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gratis

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@MISC{Kang2020-wg,
  title  = "{gratis}: {GeneRAting} {TIme} Series with diverse and controllable
            characteristics",
  author = "Kang, Yanfei and Li, Feng and Hyndman, Rob J and O'Hara-Wild,
            Mitchell and Zhao, Bocong",
  year   =  2020,
  url    = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gratis"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - MISC
AU  - Kang, Yanfei
AU  - Li, Feng
AU  - Hyndman, Rob J
AU  - O'Hara-Wild, Mitchell
AU  - Zhao, Bocong
TI  - gratis: GeneRAting TIme Series with diverse and controllable
      characteristics
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020
UR  - https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gratis
ER  -

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gratis R package release history

Version	Release date
0.2.0	2020-08-03