To cite package ‘scater’ in publications use:

  McCarthy DJ, Campbell KR, Lun ATL, Willis QF (2017). “Scater:
  pre-processing, quality control, normalisation and visualisation of
  single-cell RNA-seq data in R.” _Bioinformatics_, *33*, 1179-1186.
  doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw777
  <https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw777>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    author = {Davis J. McCarthy and Kieran R. Campbell and Aaron T. L. Lun and Quin F. Willis},
    title = {Scater: pre-processing, quality control, normalisation and visualisation of single-cell {R}{N}{A}-seq data in {R}},
    journal = {Bioinformatics},
    year = {2017},
    volume = {33},
    issue = {8},
    pages = {1179-1186},
    doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btw777},
  }