How to cite the R package targets

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the targets package (v0.2.0; Landau, 2021).

Reference list entry

Landau, W. (2021). The targets R package: a dynamic Make-like function-oriented pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(57), 2959.

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 targets package v0.2.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Landau W. The targets R package: a dynamic Make-like function-oriented pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing. J Open Source Softw. 2021 Jan 15;6(57):2959.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Landau2021-ah,
  title     = "The targets {R} package: a dynamic Make-like function-oriented
               pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance
               computing",
  author    = "Landau, William",
  journal   = "J. Open Source Softw.",
  publisher = "The Open Journal",
  volume    =  6,
  number    =  57,
  pages     = "2959",
  month     =  jan,
  year      =  2021,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.02959",
  copyright = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  issn      = "2475-9066",
  doi       = "10.21105/joss.02959"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Landau, William
TI  - The targets R package: a dynamic Make-like function-oriented pipeline
      toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing
T2  - J. Open Source Softw.
VL  - 6
IS  - 57
SP  - 2959
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/1/15
PB  - The Open Journal
SN  - 2475-9066
DO  - 10.21105/joss.02959
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.02959
ER  -

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targets R package release history

Version	Release date
0.1.0	2021-02-01
0.0.2	2021-01-21