How to cite the R package future

future is a popular R package that is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/future/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 7th 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 future package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the future package (v1.21.0; Bengtsson, 2020).

Reference list entry

Bengtsson, H. (2020). A Unifying Framework for Parallel and Distributed Processing in R using Futures. In arXiv [cs.DC]. arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00553

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 future package v1.21.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Bengtsson H. A Unifying Framework for Parallel and Distributed Processing in R using Futures [Internet]. arXiv [cs.DC]. 2020. Available from: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00553

BibTeX

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

BibTeX
@MISC{Bengtsson2020-dd,
  title         = "A Unifying Framework for Parallel and Distributed Processing
                   in {R} using Futures",
  author        = "Bengtsson, Henrik",
  journal       = "arXiv [cs.DC]",
  month         =  aug,
  year          =  2020,
  url           = "http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00553",
  archivePrefix = "arXiv",
  eprint        = "2008.00553",
  primaryClass  = "cs.DC",
  arxivid       = "2008.00553"
}

RIS

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

RIS
TY  - MISC
AU  - Bengtsson, Henrik
TI  - A Unifying Framework for Parallel and Distributed Processing in R using
      Futures
T2  - arXiv [cs.DC]
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/8
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00553
ER  - 

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future R package release history

VersionRelease date
1.20.12020-11-03
1.19.12020-09-22
1.18.02020-07-09
1.17.02020-04-18
1.16.02020-01-16
1.15.12019-11-25
1.15.02019-11-08
1.14.02019-07-02
1.13.02019-05-09
1.12.02019-03-08
1.11.1.12019-01-27
1.11.02019-01-22
1.10.02018-10-17
1.9.02018-07-23
1.8.12018-05-03
1.8.02018-04-08
1.7.02018-02-11
1.6.22017-10-17
1.6.12017-09-09
1.6.02017-08-13
1.5.02017-05-26
1.4.02017-03-13
1.3.02017-02-19
1.2.02016-11-12
1.1.12016-10-11
1.1.02016-10-10
1.0.12016-07-04
1.0.02016-06-24
0.15.02016-06-14
0.14.02016-05-17
0.13.02016-04-14
0.12.02016-02-24
0.11.02016-01-20
0.10.02015-12-31
0.9.02015-12-12
0.8.22015-10-14
0.8.12015-10-05
0.8.02015-09-07
0.7.02015-07-14
0.6.02015-06-19