To cite package 'kebabs' in publications use: Johannes Palme, Sepp Hochreiter, and Ulrich Bodenhofer (2015) KeBABS: an R package for kernel-based analysis of biological sequences. Bioinformatics, 31(15):2574-2576, 2015. DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv176. A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Article{, title = {KeBABS: an R Package for kernel-based analysis of biological sequences.}, author = {Johannes Palme and Sepp Hochreiter and Ulrich Bodenhofer}, journal = {Bioinformatics}, volume = {31}, number = {15}, pages = {2574-2576}, year = {2015}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btv176}, } If you use a specific kernel please additionally cite the publications shown in the help page of the respective kernel. For used SVMs cite the publications mentioned in the package providing the SVM implementation. To obtain the reference in BibTex format, enter 'toBibtex(citation("kebabs"))'