To cite package ‘stPipe’ in publications use:

  Xu Y, Sargeant C, You Y, You Y, Su S, Wang C, Tian L, Chen Y, Ritchie
  M (2025). “stPipe: a flexible and streamlined R/Bioconductor pipeline
  for preprocessing sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics data.”
  _NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics_, *7*(4), lqaf167.
  doi:10.1093/nargab/lqaf167 <https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqaf167>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {stPipe: a flexible and streamlined R/Bioconductor pipeline for preprocessing sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics data},
    author = {Yang Xu and Callum J Sargeant and Yue You and Yupei You and Shian Su and Changqing Wang and Luyi Tian and Yunshun Chen and Matthew E Ritchie},
    journal = {NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics},
    year = {2025},
    volume = {7},
    number = {4},
    pages = {lqaf167},
    month = {December},
    doi = {10.1093/nargab/lqaf167},
  }