To cite miRBaseConverter in publications use:

Taosheng Xu, Ning Su, Lin Liu, Junpeng Zhang, Hongqiang Wang, Weijia Zhang, Jie Gui, Kui Yu, Jiuyong Li and Thuc Duy Le. miRBaseConverter: An R/Bioconductor Package for Converting and Retrieving miRNA Name, Accession, Sequence and Family Information in Different Versions of miRBase. BMC Bioinformatics 19 (s19) :514 (2018).<doi:/10.1186/s12859-018-2531-5>

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {miRBaseConverter: A comprehensive and high-efficiency tool
      for converting and retrieving the information of miRNAs in
      different miRBase versions},
    author = {Taosheng Xu and Ning Su and Lin Liu and Junpeng Zhang and
      Hongqiang Wang and Weijia Zhang and Jie Gui and Kui Yu and
      {et.al.}},
    journal = {BMC Bioinformatics},
    year = {2018},
    volume = {19},
    number = {s19},
    pages = {514},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2531-5},
  }