To cite the 'pacotest' package in publications use:

Malte S. Kurz (2017). pacotest: Testing for Partial Copulas and the Simplifying Assumption in Vine Copulas. R package version 0.2.

Kurz, M. S. and F. Spanhel (2017), "Testing the simplifying assumption in high-dimensional vine copulas", Unpublished Working Paper.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users can be obtained by calling: toBibtex(citation("pacotest"))

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {pacotest: Testing for Partial Copulas and the Simplifying
      Assumption in Vine Copulas},
    author = {Malte S. Kurz},
    year = {2017},
    note = {R package version 0.2},
  }

  @Unpublished{,
    author = {Malte S. Kurz and Fabian Spanhel},
    title = {Testing the simplifying assumption in high-dimensional
      vine copulas},
    note = {Unpublished Working Paper},
    year = {2017},
  }