To cite the package 'MonoPhy' in publications use: Schwery, O. & O'Meara, B.C. (2016), MonoPhy: a simple R package to find and visualize monophyly issues. PeerJ Computer Science 2:e56. A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Article{, title = {MonoPhy: a simple R package to find and visualize monophyly issues}, author = {Orlando Schwery and Brian C. O'Meara}, year = {2016}, volume = {2}, pages = {e56}, journal = {PeerJ Computer Science}, issn = {2376-5992}, url = {https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.56}, doi = {10.7717/peerj-cs.56}, } You may also want to cite the version number you used (found via 'library(help=MonoPhy)').