To cite the original statistical method and normalization method implemented in metagenomeSeq use Paulson JN, Stine OC, Bravo HC, Pop M (2013). “Differential abundance analysis for microbial marker-gene surveys.” _Nat Meth_, *advance online publication*. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2658 , . A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Article{, title = {Differential abundance analysis for microbial marker-gene surveys}, author = {Joseph N. Paulson and Oscar Colin Stine and Hector Corrada Bravo and Mihai Pop}, year = {2013}, journal = {Nat Meth}, volume = {advance online publication}, doi = {10.1038/nmeth.2658}, url = {http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmeth.2658.html}, } To cite the metagenomeSeq software/vignette guide use Paulson JN, Olson ND, Braccia DJ, Wagner J, Talukder H, Pop M, Bravo HC (2013). _metagenomeSeq: Statistical analysis for sparse high-throughput sequncing._. Bioconductor package, . A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Manual{, title = {metagenomeSeq: Statistical analysis for sparse high-throughput sequncing.}, author = {Joseph N. Paulson and Nathan D. Olson and Domenick J. Braccia and Justin Wagner and Hisham Talukder and Mihai Pop and Hector Corrada Bravo}, year = {2013}, note = {Bioconductor package}, url = {http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/metagenomeSeq}, } To cite time series analysis/function fitTimeSeries use Paulson* JN, Talukder* H, Bravo HC (2017). “Longitudinal differential abundance analysis of marker-gene surveys using smoothing splines.” _biorxiv_. doi:10.1101/099457 , . A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Article{, title = {Longitudinal differential abundance analysis of marker-gene surveys using smoothing splines}, author = {Joseph N. Paulson* and Hisham Talukder* and Hector Corrada Bravo}, year = {2017}, journal = {biorxiv}, doi = {10.1101/099457}, url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/099457v1}, }