To cite package ‘rchime’ in publications use:

  Sarah Westcott (2026). rchime: Detect and Remove Chimeras from
  Amplicon Sequence Data. R package version 0.1.0.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {rchime: Detect and Remove Chimeras from Amplicon Sequence Data},
    author = {Sarah Westcott},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0},
    url = {https://mothur.org/rchime/},
  }

  Rognes, T., Flouri, T., Nichols, B., Quince, C., & Mahé, F. (2016).
  VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics. PeerJ, 4,
  e2584. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2584

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics},
    author = {Torbjørn Rognes and Tomáš Flouri and Ben Nichols and Christopher Quince and Frédéric Mahé},
    journal = {PeerJ},
    year = {2016},
    volume = {4},
    pages = {e2584},
    doi = {10.7717/peerj.2584},
  }

  Edgar, R. C., Haas, B. J., Clemente, J. C., Quince, C., & Knight, R.
  (2011). UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection.
  Bioinformatics, 27(16), 2194-2200. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr381

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection},
    author = {Robert C. Edgar and Brian J. Haas and Jose C. Clemente and Christopher Quince and Rob Knight},
    journal = {Bioinformatics},
    year = {2011},
    volume = {27},
    number = {16},
    pages = {2194--2200},
    doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btr381},
  }