To cite package ‘vegan’ in publications use:

Oksanen J, Simpson G, Blanchet F, Kindt R, Legendre P, Minchin P, O'Hara R, Solymos P, Stevens M, Szoecs E, Wagner H, Bedward M, Bolker B, Borcard D, Carvalho G, De Caceres M, Durand S, Evangelista H, Hannigan G, Hill M, Lahti L, Martino C, Ouellette M, Ribeiro Cunha E, Smith T, Stier A, Ter Braak C, Weedon J (2026). vegan: Community Ecology Package. R package version 2.8-0, https://github.com/vegandevs/vegan.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Manual{,
    title = {vegan: Community Ecology Package},
    author = {Jari Oksanen and Gavin L. Simpson and F. Guillaume
      Blanchet and Roeland Kindt and Pierre Legendre and Peter R.
      Minchin and R.B. O'Hara and Peter Solymos and M. Henry H. Stevens
      and Eduard Szoecs and Helene Wagner and Michael Bedward and Ben
      Bolker and Daniel Borcard and Gustavo Carvalho and Miquel {De
      Caceres} and Sebastien Durand and Heloisa Beatriz Antoniazi
      Evangelista and Geoffrey Hannigan and Mark O. Hill and Leo Lahti
      and Cameron Martino and Marie-Helene Ouellette and Eduardo
      {Ribeiro Cunha} and Tyler Smith and Adrian Stier and Cajo J.F.
      {Ter Braak} and James Weedon},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 2.8-0},
    url = {https://github.com/vegandevs/vegan},
  }