To cite package ‘progeny’ in publications use:

  M Schubert, B Klinger, M Klünemann, A Sieber, F Uhlitz, S Sauer, MJ
  Garnett, N Blüthgen, and J Saez-Rodriguez. 2018.
  “Perturbation-Response Genes Reveal Signaling Footprints in Cancer
  Gene Expression.” Nature Communications 9 (1)

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    author = {Michael Schubert and Bertram Klinger and Martina Klünemann and Anja Sieber and Florian Uhlitz and Sascha Sauer and Mathew J Garnett and Nils Blüthgen and Julio Saez-Rodriguez},
    title = {Perturbation-response genes reveal signaling footprints in cancer gene expression},
    journal = {Nature communications},
    year = {2018},
    volume = {9},
    number = {20},
  }