To cite backbone in publications use:

Neal ZP (2022). “backbone: An R Package to Extract Network Backbones.” PLOS ONE, 17(5), e0269137. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269137.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {backbone: An R Package to Extract Network Backbones},
    author = {Zachary P. Neal},
    journal = {PLOS ONE},
    year = {2022},
    volume = {17},
    number = {5},
    pages = {e0269137},
    doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0269137},
  }