‘ergm’ is part of the Statnet suite of packages. If you are using the
‘ergm’ package for research that will be published, we request that you
acknowledge this by citing the following. For BibTeX format, use
toBibtex(citation("ergm")).

  Handcock MS, Hunter DR, Butts CT, Goodreau SM, Krivitsky PN, Morris M
  (2024). _ergm: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models
  for Networks_. The Statnet Project (<https://statnet.org>). R package
  version 4.7.5, <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ergm>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    author = {Mark S. Handcock and David R. Hunter and Carter T. Butts and Steven M. Goodreau and Pavel N. Krivitsky and Martina Morris},
    title = {ergm: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks},
    organization = {The Statnet Project (\url{https://statnet.org})},
    year = {2024},
    note = {R package version 4.7.5},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ergm},
  }

  Hunter DR, Handcock MS, Butts CT, Goodreau SM, Morris M (2008).
  “ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family
  Models for Networks.” _Journal of Statistical Software_, *24*(3),
  1-29. doi:10.18637/jss.v024.i03
  <https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v024.i03>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {{ergm}: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks},
    author = {David R. Hunter and Mark S. Handcock and Carter T. Butts and Steven M. Goodreau and Martina Morris},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2008},
    volume = {24},
    number = {3},
    pages = {1--29},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v024.i03},
  }

  Krivitsky PN, Hunter DR, Morris M, Klumb C (2023). “ergm 4: New
  Features for Analyzing Exponential-Family Random Graph Models.”
  _Journal of Statistical Software_, *105*(6), 1-44.
  doi:10.18637/jss.v105.i06 <https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v105.i06>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {{ergm} 4: New Features for Analyzing Exponential-Family Random Graph Models},
    author = {Pavel N. Krivitsky and David R. Hunter and Martina Morris and Chad Klumb},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2023},
    volume = {105},
    number = {6},
    pages = {1--44},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v105.i06},
  }

We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating the Statnet suite
of packages for use by other researchers. Please cite it in all papers
where it is used. The package ‘ergm’ is distributed under the terms of
the license GPL-3 + file LICENSE.