How to cite the R package modest

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the modest package (v0.3-1; Pallmann & Wan, 2017).

Reference list entry

Pallmann, P., & Wan, F. (2017). modest: Model-based dose-escalation trials. https://cran.r-project.org/package=jocre

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 modest package v0.3-1 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Pallmann P, Wan F. modest: Model-based dose-escalation trials [Internet]. 2017. Available from: https://cran.r-project.org/package=jocre

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@MISC{Pallmann2017-jn,
  title  = "modest: Model-based dose-escalation trials",
  author = "Pallmann, Philip and Wan, Fang",
  year   =  2017,
  url    = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=jocre"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - MISC
AU  - Pallmann, Philip
AU  - Wan, Fang
TI  - modest: Model-based dose-escalation trials
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017
UR  - https://cran.r-project.org/package=jocre
ER  -

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modest R package release history

Version	Release date
0.1	2017-06-28