How to cite the R package leiden

leiden is a popular R package that is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/leiden/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 7th 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 leiden package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the leiden package (v0.3.7; Kelly, 2020).

Reference list entry

Kelly, S. T. (2020). leiden: R implementation of the Leiden algorithm. https://github.com/TomKellyGenetics/leiden

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 leiden package v0.3.7 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Kelly ST. leiden: R implementation of the Leiden algorithm [Internet]. 2020. Available from: https://github.com/TomKellyGenetics/leiden

BibTeX

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

BibTeX
@MISC{Kelly2020-rn,
  title  = "leiden: {R} implementation of the Leiden algorithm",
  author = "Kelly, S Thomas",
  year   =  2020,
  url    = "https://github.com/TomKellyGenetics/leiden"
}

RIS

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

RIS
TY  - MISC
AU  - Kelly, S Thomas
TI  - leiden: R implementation of the Leiden algorithm
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020
UR  - https://github.com/TomKellyGenetics/leiden
ER  - 

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leiden R package release history

VersionRelease date
0.3.62020-12-07
0.3.52020-11-09
0.3.42020-10-29
0.3.32020-02-04
0.3.22020-01-18
0.3.12019-07-23
0.3.02019-07-15
0.2.32019-02-11