To cite package ‘M3C’ in publications use:

  John, C.R., Watson, D., Lewis, M. M3C: A Monte Carlo reference-based
  consensus clustering algorithm bioRxiv (2018): 377002

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {M3C: A Monte Carlo reference-based consensus clustering algorithm},
    author = {Christopher R. John and David Watson and Myles Lewis and Dominic Russ and Katriona Goldmann and Michael Ehrenstein and Costantino Pitzalis and Michael Barnes},
    year = {2018},
    journal = {bioRxiv},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1101/377002},
  }