How to cite the R package chirps

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the chirps package (v0.1.2; de Sousa et al., 2020).

Reference list entry

de Sousa, K., Sparks, A., Ashmall, W., van Etten, J., & Solberg, S. (2020). Chirps: API client for the CHIRPS precipitation data in R. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(51), 2419.

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 chirps package v0.1.2 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
de Sousa K, Sparks A, Ashmall W, van Etten J, Solberg S. Chirps: API client for the CHIRPS precipitation data in R. J Open Source Softw. 2020 Jul 1;5(51):2419.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{De_Sousa2020-mt,
  title     = "Chirps: {API} client for the {CHIRPS} precipitation data in {R}",
  author    = "de Sousa, Kau{\^e} and Sparks, Adam and Ashmall, William and van
               Etten, Jacob and Solberg, Svein",
  journal   = "J. Open Source Softw.",
  publisher = "The Open Journal",
  volume    =  5,
  number    =  51,
  pages     = "2419",
  month     =  jul,
  year      =  2020,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.02419",
  copyright = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  issn      = "2475-9066",
  doi       = "10.21105/joss.02419"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - de Sousa, Kauê
AU  - Sparks, Adam
AU  - Ashmall, William
AU  - van Etten, Jacob
AU  - Solberg, Svein
TI  - Chirps: API client for the CHIRPS precipitation data in R
T2  - J. Open Source Softw.
VL  - 5
IS  - 51
SP  - 2419
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/7/1
PB  - The Open Journal
SN  - 2475-9066
DO  - 10.21105/joss.02419
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.02419
ER  -

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chirps R package release history

Version	Release date
0.1.0	2020-07-03