To cite ballast in publications use:

  Sullivan AJ (2026). ballast: Stress-Test a Pre-Specified Mixed Model
  for Repeated Measures. R package version 0.6.1.
  doi:10.5281/zenodo.23427834.
  https://github.com/Sullivanstatistics/ballast

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {ballast: Stress-Test a Pre-Specified Mixed Model for Repeated Measures},
    author = {Adam J. Sullivan},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.6.1},
    url = {https://github.com/Sullivanstatistics/ballast},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23427834},
  }