How to cite the R package sars

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the sars package (v1.3.2; Matthews et al., 2019).

Reference list entry

Matthews, T. J., Triantis, K., Whittaker, R. J., & Guilhaumon, F. (2019). sars: an R package for fitting, evaluating and comparing species–area relationship models. In Ecography (Vol. 42, pp. 1446–1455).

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 sars package v1.3.2 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Matthews TJ, Triantis K, Whittaker RJ, Guilhaumon F. sars: an R package for fitting, evaluating and comparing species–area relationship models. Vol. 42, Ecography. 2019. p. 1446–55.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@MISC{Matthews2019-bl,
  title   = "sars: an {R} package for fitting, evaluating and comparing
             species--area relationship models",
  author  = "Matthews, T J and Triantis, K and Whittaker, R J and Guilhaumon, F",
  journal = "Ecography",
  volume  =  42,
  pages   = "1446--1455",
  year    =  2019
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - MISC
AU  - Matthews, T J
AU  - Triantis, K
AU  - Whittaker, R J
AU  - Guilhaumon, F
TI  - sars: an R package for fitting, evaluating and comparing species–area
      relationship models
T2  - Ecography
VL  - 42
SP  - 1446-1455
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019
ER  -

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sars R package release history

Version	Release date
1.3.0	2020-10-06
1.2.3	2020-05-31
1.2.1	2020-01-07
1.2.0	2019-07-25
1.1.2	2019-05-27
1.1.1	2019-02-19
1.1.0	2019-01-28
1.0.0	2018-08-13