How to cite the R package mediation
mediation is a popular R package that is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mediation/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.
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 mediation package have suggested.
Example of an in-text citation
Analysis of the data was done using the mediation package (v4.5.0; Tingley et al., 2014).
Reference list entry
Tingley, D., Yamamoto, T., Hirose, K., Keele, L., & Imai, K. (2014). mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis. In Journal of Statistical Software (Vol. 59, Issue 5, pp. 1–38). http://www.jstatsoft.org/v59/i05/
Vancouver citation
Formatted according to Vancouver style. Simply copy it to the references section as is.
Example of an in-text citation
Analysis of the data was done using the mediation package v4.5.0 (1).
Reference list entry
1.Tingley D, Yamamoto T, Hirose K, Keele L, Imai K. mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis [Internet]. Vol. 59, Journal of Statistical Software. 2014. p. 1–38. Available from: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v59/i05/
BibTeX
Reference entry in BibTeX format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.
@MISC{Tingley2014-xs,
title = "{mediation}: {R} Package for Causal Mediation Analysis",
author = "Tingley, Dustin and Yamamoto, Teppei and Hirose, Kentaro and
Keele, Luke and Imai, Kosuke",
journal = "Journal of Statistical Software",
volume = 59,
number = 5,
pages = "1--38",
year = 2014,
url = "http://www.jstatsoft.org/v59/i05/"
}
RIS
Reference entry in RIS format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.
TY - MISC AU - Tingley, Dustin AU - Yamamoto, Teppei AU - Hirose, Kentaro AU - Keele, Luke AU - Imai, Kosuke TI - mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis T2 - Journal of Statistical Software VL - 59 IS - 5 SP - 1-38 PY - 2014 DA - 2014 UR - http://www.jstatsoft.org/v59/i05/ ER -
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mediation R package release history
| Version | Release date |
|---|---|
| 4.4.7 | 2019-03-17 |
| 4.4.6 | 2017-07-12 |
| 4.4.5 | 2015-07-18 |
| 4.4.4 | 2015-03-03 |
| 4.4.3 | 2014-11-23 |
| 4.4.2 | 2014-08-27 |
| 4.4.1 | 2014-08-13 |
| 4.4 | 2013-12-09 |
| 4.3.1 | 2013-10-17 |
| 4.3 | 2013-10-14 |
| 4.2.4 | 2013-09-26 |
| 4.2.3 | 2013-08-26 |
| 4.2.2 | 2013-04-18 |
| 4.2.1 | 2013-03-04 |
| 4.2 | 2012-12-18 |
| 4.1.2 | 2012-08-24 |
| 4.1 | 2012-06-03 |
| 4.0.1 | 2012-04-20 |
| 4.0 | 2012-03-20 |
| 3.1.2 | 2011-09-20 |
| 3.1.1 | 2011-09-19 |
| 3.1 | 2011-08-21 |
| 3.0 | 2011-05-03 |
| 2.1 | 2009-09-18 |
| 2.0 | 2009-07-18 |
| 1.0 | 2009-06-14 |