Below are the citations for using {nlstimedist} or referencing the Franco distribution.

If the {nlstimedist} package is used, cite:

Eastwood N, Steer N, Franco M, Ramsay P (2020). nlstimedist: Non-Linear Model Fitting of Time Distribution of Biological Phenomena. R package version 2.0.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nlstimedist.

References to the Franco distribution should cite:

Steer NC, Ramsay P, Franco M (2019). “nlstimedist : An r package for the biologically meaningful quantification of unimodal phenology distributions.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 1934–1940. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13293.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{nlstimedist-package,
    title = {nlstimedist: Non-Linear Model Fitting of Time Distribution
      of Biological Phenomena},
    author = {Nathan Eastwood and Nicola Steer and Miguel Franco and
      Paul Ramsay},
    year = {2020},
    note = {R package version 2.0.0},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nlstimedist},
  }

  @Article{franco-distribution,
    title = {nlstimedist : An r package for the biologically meaningful
      quantification of unimodal phenology distributions},
    author = {Nicola C. Steer and Paul Ramsay and Miguel Franco},
    journal = {Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
    year = {2019},
    volume = {10},
    issue = {11},
    pages = {1934--1940},
    doi = {10.1111/2041-210X.13293},
  }