How to cite the R package loo

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the loo package (v2.4.1; Vehtari et al., 2020).

Reference list entry

Vehtari, A., Gabry, J., Magnusson, M., Yao, Y., Bürkner, P.-C., Paananen, T., & Gelman, A. (2020). loo: Efficient leave-one-out cross-validation and WAIC for Bayesian models. https://mc-stan.org/loo/

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 loo package v2.4.1 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Vehtari A, Gabry J, Magnusson M, Yao Y, Bürkner PC, Paananen T, et al. loo: Efficient leave-one-out cross-validation and WAIC for Bayesian models [Internet]. 2020. Available from: https://mc-stan.org/loo/

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@MISC{Vehtari2020-wk,
  title  = "loo: Efficient leave-one-out cross-validation and {WAIC} for
            Bayesian models",
  author = "Vehtari, Aki and Gabry, Jonah and Magnusson, Mans and Yao, Yuling
            and B{\"u}rkner, Paul-Christian and Paananen, Topi and Gelman,
            Andrew",
  year   =  2020,
  url    = "https://mc-stan.org/loo/"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - MISC
AU  - Vehtari, Aki
AU  - Gabry, Jonah
AU  - Magnusson, Mans
AU  - Yao, Yuling
AU  - Bürkner, Paul-Christian
AU  - Paananen, Topi
AU  - Gelman, Andrew
TI  - loo: Efficient leave-one-out cross-validation and WAIC for Bayesian models
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020
UR  - https://mc-stan.org/loo/
ER  -

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loo R package release history

Version	Release date
2.4.0	2020-12-05
2.3.1	2020-07-15
2.3.0	2020-07-07
2.2.0	2019-12-19
2.1.0	2019-03-13
2.0.0	2018-04-11
1.1.0	2017-03-27
1.0.0	2016-12-16
0.1.6	2016-03-23
0.1.5	2016-02-12
0.1.4	2015-12-10
0.1.3	2015-09-18
0.1.2	2015-07-17
0.1.0	2015-06-26