To cite package 'robCompositions' in publications you might use: Matthias Templ, Karel Hron, Peter Filzmoser (2011). robCompositions: an R-package for robust statistical analysis of compositional data. In V. Pawlowsky-Glahn and A. Buccianti, editors, Compositional Data Analysis. Theory and Applications, pp. 341-355, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester (UK) . A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Book{, title = {rob{C}ompositions: an R-package for robust statistical analysis of compositional data}, author = {Matthias Templ and Karel Hron and Peter Filzmoser}, publisher = {{J}ohn {W}iley and {S}ons}, isbn = {978-0-470-71135-4}, booktitle = {{C}ompositional {D}ata {A}nalysis: {T}heory and {A}pplications}, year = {2011}, pages = {341--355}, doi = {10.1002/9781119976462.ch25}, } Peter Filzmoser, Karel Hron, Matthias Templ (2018). Applied Compositional Data Analysis. With Worked Examples in R. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland . A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Book{, title = {Applied Compositional Data Analysis. With Worked Examples in {R}}, author = {Peter Filzmoser and Karel Hron and Matthias Templ}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland}, note = {Springer Series in Statistics}, isbn = {978-3-319-96420-1}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-96422-5}, year = {2018}, }