How to cite the R package correlation

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the correlation package (v0.6.0; Makowski et al., 2020).

Reference list entry

Makowski, D., Ben-Shachar, M., Patil, I., & Lüdecke, D. (2020). Methods and algorithms for correlation analysis in R. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(51), 2306.

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 correlation package v0.6.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Makowski D, Ben-Shachar M, Patil I, Lüdecke D. Methods and algorithms for correlation analysis in R. J Open Source Softw. 2020 Jul 16;5(51):2306.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Makowski2020-lj,
  title     = "Methods and algorithms for correlation analysis in {R}",
  author    = "Makowski, Dominique and Ben-Shachar, Mattan and Patil, Indrajeet
               and L{\"u}decke, Daniel",
  journal   = "J. Open Source Softw.",
  publisher = "The Open Journal",
  volume    =  5,
  number    =  51,
  pages     = "2306",
  month     =  jul,
  year      =  2020,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.02306",
  copyright = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  issn      = "2475-9066",
  doi       = "10.21105/joss.02306"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Makowski, Dominique
AU  - Ben-Shachar, Mattan
AU  - Patil, Indrajeet
AU  - Lüdecke, Daniel
TI  - Methods and algorithms for correlation analysis in R
T2  - J. Open Source Softw.
VL  - 5
IS  - 51
SP  - 2306
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/7/16
PB  - The Open Journal
SN  - 2475-9066
DO  - 10.21105/joss.02306
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.02306
ER  -

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correlation R package release history

Version	Release date
0.5.0	2020-12-02
0.4.0	2020-09-27
0.3.0	2020-06-19
0.2.1	2020-05-05
0.2.0	2020-04-09
0.1.0	2020-03-16