To cite MeLSI in publications use:

  Bresette N, Ericsson AC, Woods C, Lin A-L (2025). MeLSI: Metric
  Learning for Statistical Inference in Microbiome Analysis. R package
  version 0.99.0, https://github.com/NathanBresette/MeLSI,
  doi:10.5281/zenodo.17714848.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {MeLSI: Metric Learning for Statistical Inference in Microbiome Analysis},
    author = {Nathan Bresette and Aaron C. Ericsson and Carter Woods and Ai-Ling Lin},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 0.99.0},
    url = {https://github.com/NathanBresette/MeLSI},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17714848},
  }

  Bresette N, Ericsson AC, Woods C, Lin A-L (2025). MeLSI: Metric
  Learning for Statistical Inference in Microbiome Community
  Composition Analysis. bioRxiv, doi:10.64898/2025.12.04.692328.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {MeLSI: Metric Learning for Statistical Inference in Microbiome Community Composition Analysis},
    author = {Nathan Bresette and Aaron C. Ericsson and Carter Woods and Ai-Ling Lin},
    year = {2025},
    journal = {bioRxiv},
    doi = {10.64898/2025.12.04.692328},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.04.692328},
    note = {Preprint},
  }