To cite the BARD package in publications use:

Altman, M., M.P. McDonald (2009) BARD: Better Automated Redistricting (version 1.04), Journal of Statistical Software: Forthcoming.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @article{,
    title = {BARD: Better Automated Redistricting},
    author = {M. Altman and M.P. McDonald},
    howpublished = {software},
    year = {2009},
    note = {Software: R Package, BARD, (version 1.04) },
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    volume = {Forthcoming},
    url = {http://bard.sf.net/},
  }