How to cite the R package idm

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the idm package (v1.8.2; Iodice D’Enza et al., 2018).

Reference list entry

Iodice D’Enza, A., Markos, A., & Buttarazzi, D. (2018). The idm Package: Incremental Decomposition Methods in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 86(Code Snippet 4). https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v086.c04

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 idm package v1.8.2 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Iodice D’Enza A, Markos A, Buttarazzi D. The idm Package: Incremental Decomposition Methods in R. J Stat Softw [Internet]. 2018;86(Code Snippet 4). Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v086.c04

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Iodice_DEnza2018-so,
  title     = "The idm Package: Incremental Decomposition Methods in {R}",
  author    = "Iodice D'Enza, Alfonso and Markos, Angelos and Buttarazzi,
               Davide",
  journal   = "J. Stat. Softw.",
  publisher = "Foundation for Open Access Statistic",
  volume    =  86,
  number    = "Code Snippet 4",
  year      =  2018,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v086.c04",
  language  = "en",
  issn      = "1548-7660",
  doi       = "10.18637/jss.v086.c04"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Iodice D'Enza, Alfonso
AU  - Markos, Angelos
AU  - Buttarazzi, Davide
TI  - The idm Package: Incremental Decomposition Methods in R
T2  - J. Stat. Softw.
VL  - 86
IS  - Code Snippet 4
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018
PB  - Foundation for Open Access Statistic
SN  - 1548-7660
DO  - 10.18637/jss.v086.c04
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v086.c04
ER  -

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idm R package release history

Version	Release date
1.8.1	2017-04-16
1.8.0	2017-03-24
1.7.1	2016-10-26
1.3.1	2016-03-10
1.3	2016-02-18
1.2	2015-08-25
1.0	2015-06-03