To cite the curatedCRCData package in publications use:

  Ma S, Ogino S, Parsana P, et al. Continuity of transcriptomes among
  colorectal cancer subtypes based on meta-analysis. Genome Biol.
  2018;19(1):142. doi:10.1186/s13059-018-1511-4

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {Continuity of transcriptomes among colorectal cancer subtypes based on meta-analysis},
    author = {Siyuan Ma and Shuji Ogino and Princy Parsana and Reiko Nishihara and Zhirong Qian and Jeanne Shen and Kosuke Mima and Yohei Masugi and Yin Cao and Jonathan A Nowak and Kaori Shima and Yujin Hoshida and Edward L Giovannucci and Manish K Gala and Andrew T Chan and Charles S Fuchs and Giovanni Parmigiani and Curtis Huttenhower and Levi Waldron},
    journal = {Genome Biology},
    year = {2018},
    volume = {19},
    number = {1},
    pages = {142},
    doi = {10.1186/s13059-018-1511-4},
  }