To cite package ‘PCAN’ in publications use:

  Patrice Godard and Matthew Page (2016). PCAN: phenotype consensus
  analysis to support disease-gene association. BMC Bioinformatics,
  17(1), 518.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {PCAN: phenotype consensus analysis to support disease-gene association},
    author = {Patrice Godard and Matthew Page},
    journal = {BMC Bioinformatics},
    year = {2016},
    volume = {17},
    number = {1},
    pages = {518},
    doi = {10.1186/s12859-016-1401-2},
    url = {https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-016-1401-2},
  }