To cite contentiousR in publications, please use:

  Guseinov R (2026). “contentiousR: An R Package for Contentious
  Politics and Civil Conflict Research.” SSRN preprint.
  doi:10.2139/ssrn.7506799 <https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7506799>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Misc{,
    title = {{contentiousR}: An {R} Package for Contentious Politics and Civil Conflict Research},
    author = {Ruslan Guseinov},
    year = {2026},
    howpublished = {SSRN preprint},
    doi = {10.2139/ssrn.7506799},
  }

To cite the software itself (e.g. to record the exact version used):

  Guseinov R (2026). _contentiousR: Contentious Politics and Civil
  Conflict Research_. R package version 0.1.0,
  <https://github.com/rguseinov/contentiousR>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {{contentiousR}: Contentious Politics and Civil Conflict Research},
    author = {Ruslan Guseinov},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0},
    url = {https://github.com/rguseinov/contentiousR},
  }