To cite TraMineR in publications please use:

For state sequences:

Gabadinho, A., Ritschard, G., Müller, N. S., & Studer, M. (2011). Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in R with TraMineR. Journal of Statistical Software, 40(4), 1-37. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v040.i04.

For dissimilarity measures:

Studer, M. & Ritschard, G. (2016). What matters in differences between life trajectories: A comparative review of sequence dissimilarity measures, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 179(2), 481-511. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12125

For discrepancy analysis:

Studer, M., Ritschard, G., Gabadinho, A. & Müller, N.S. (2011), Discrepancy analysis of state sequences, Sociological Methods and Research, 40(3), 471-510. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124111415372

Studer, M., Ritschard, G., Gabadinho, A. & Müller, N.S. (2010), Discrepancy analysis of complex objects using dissimilarities, In Guillet, F., Ritschard, G., Zighed, D.A. & Briand, H. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management. Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence. Volume 292, pp. 3-19. Berlin: Springer.

For representative sequences:

Gabadinho, A. & Ritschard, G. (2013), Searching for typical life trajectories applied to child birth histories, In R. Lévy & E. Widmer (eds.), Gendered life courses. pp. 287-312. Vienna: LIT

For longitudinal characteristics and the complexity index:

Gabadinho, A., Ritschard, G., Studer, M. & Müller, N.S. (2010), Indice de complexité pour le tri et la comparaison de séquences catégorielles, In Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010), Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information RNTI. Vol. E-19, pp. 61-66.

For event sequences:

Ritschard, G., Bürgin, R. & Studer, M. (2013), Exploratory Mining of Life Event Histories, In J.J. McArdle & G. Ritschard (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in the Behavioral Sciences. pp. 221-253. New York: Routledge

Bürgin, R. & Ritschard, G. (2014), A decorated parallel coordinate plot for categorical longitudinal data, The American Statistician 68(2), 98-103. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2014.887591

See ‘citation()’ for citing R itself.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in {R} with
      {TraMineR}},
    author = {Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard and Nicolas S.
      Müller and Matthias Studer},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2011},
    volume = {40},
    number = {4},
    pages = {1--37},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v040.i04},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Matthias Studer and Gilbert Ritschard},
    title = {What matters in differences between life trajectories: a
      comparative review of sequence dissimilarity measures},
    journal = {Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A},
    year = {2016},
    volume = {179},
    number = {2},
    pages = {481--511},
    doi = {10.1111/rssa.12125},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Matthias Studer and Gilbert Ritschard and Alexis
      Gabadinho and Nicolas S. Müller},
    title = {Discrepancy analysis of state sequences},
    journal = {Sociological Methods and Research},
    year = {2011},
    volume = {40},
    number = {3},
    pages = {471--510},
    doi = {10.1177/0049124111415372},
  }

  @InCollection{,
    author = {Matthias Studer and Gilbert Ritschard and Alexis
      Gabadinho and Nicolas S. Müller},
    title = {Discrepancy analysis of complex objects using
      dissimilarities},
    booktitle = {Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management},
    publisher = {Springer},
    year = {2010},
    editor = {Fabrice Guillet and Gilbert Ritschard and Djamel A.
      Zighed and Henri Briand},
    series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
    address = {Berlin},
    note = {292},
    pages = {3-19},
  }

  @InCollection{,
    author = {Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard},
    title = {Searching for typical life trajectories applied to child
      birth histories},
    booktitle = {Gendered life courses},
    publisher = {Vienna: LIT},
    year = {2013},
    editor = {R. Lévy and E. Widmer},
    pages = {287-312},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard and Matthias
      Studer and Nicolas S. Müller},
    title = {Indice de complexité pour le tri et la comparaison de
      séquences catégorielles},
    booktitle = {Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010)},
    journal = {Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information
      (RNTI)},
    year = {2010},
    volume = {E-19},
    pages = {61-66},
  }

  @InCollection{,
    author = {Gilbert Ritschard and Reto Bürgin and Matthias Studer},
    title = {Exploratory Mining of Life Event Histories},
    booktitle = {Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in the
      Behavioral Sciences},
    publisher = {New York: Routledge},
    year = {2013},
    editor = {J.J. McArdle and G. Ritschard},
    pages = {221-253},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Reto Bürgin and Gilbert Ritschard},
    title = {A decorated parallel coordinate plot for categorical
      longitudinal data},
    journal = {The American Statistician},
    year = {2014},
    volume = {68},
    pages = {98-103},
    number = {2},
    doi = {10.1080/00031305.2014.887591},
  }