To cite package 'BioGeoBEARS' in publications use:

Matzke N (2013). BioGeoBEARS: BioGeography with Bayesian (and Likelihood) Evolutionary Analysis in R Scripts. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. The rexpokit/cladoRcpp/BioGeoBEARS packages were first published in: Matzke, Nicholas J. (2012). Founder-event speciation in BioGeoBEARS package dramatically improves likelihoods and alters parameter inference in Dispersal-Extinction-Cladogenesis (DEC) analyses. Frontiers of Biogeography, 4(suppl. 1): 210, December 2012. Link to abstract and PDF of poster: http://phylo.wikidot.com/matzke-2013-international-biogeography-society-poster . (Poster abstract published in the Conference Program and Abstracts of the International Biogeography Society 6th Biannual Meeting, Miami, Florida. Poster Session P10: Historical and Paleo-Biogeography. Poster 129B. January 11, 2013.), http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BioGeoBEARS.

A lot of time and effort in creating BioGeoBEARS, as well as the sister packages 'rexpokit' and 'cladoRcpp', please cite it and the other packages when using it for publication. See also ‘citation("pkgname")’ for citing R packages.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Manual{,
    title = {BioGeoBEARS: BioGeography with Bayesian (and Likelihood)
      Evolutionary Analysis in R Scripts},
    author = {Nicholas J. Matzke},
    organization = {University of California, Berkeley},
    address = {Berkeley, CA},
    year = {2013},
    note = {The rexpokit/cladoRcpp/BioGeoBEARS packages were first
      published in: Matzke, Nicholas J. (2012). Founder-event
      speciation in BioGeoBEARS package dramatically improves
      likelihoods and alters parameter inference in
      Dispersal-Extinction-Cladogenesis (DEC) analyses. Frontiers of
      Biogeography, 4(suppl. 1): 210, December 2012.  Link to abstract
      and PDF of poster:
      http://phylo.wikidot.com/matzke-2013-international-biogeography-society-poster
      . (Poster abstract published in the Conference Program and
      Abstracts of the International Biogeography Society 6th Biannual
      Meeting, Miami, Florida. Poster Session P10: Historical and
      Paleo-Biogeography. Poster 129B. January 11, 2013.)},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BioGeoBEARS},
  }