When referencing the BioCro R package in a scientific publication, please cite the two journal articles below. Additionally, cite the package itself or otherwise specify its version number. Citation for this version of the BioCro R package:

McGrath J, Lochocki E, Rohde S, Jaiswal D, Matthews M, Miguez F, Long S (2024). BioCro: Modular Crop Growth Simulations. R package version 3.1.3, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BioCro.

Journal article describing the modular version of BioCro:

Lochocki E, Rohde S, Jaiswal D, Matthews M, Miguez F, Long S, McGrath J (2022). “BioCro II: a software package for modular crop growth simulations.” in silico Plants, 4(1), diac003. doi:10.1093/insilicoplants/diac003.

Journal article describing the first version of BioCro:

Miguez F, Zhu X, Humphries S, Bollero G, Long S (2009). “A semimechanistic model predicting the growth and production of the bioenergy crop Miscanthus x giganteus: description, parameterization and validation.” GCB Bioenergy, 1(4), 282 296. doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2009.01019.x.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {BioCro: Modular Crop Growth Simulations},
    author = {Justin M. McGrath and Edward B. Lochocki and Scott Rohde
      and Deepak Jaiswal and Megan L. Matthews and Fernando E. Miguez
      and Stephen P. Long},
    year = {2024},
    note = {R package version 3.1.3},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BioCro},
  }
  @Article{,
    author = {Edward B Lochocki and Scott Rohde and Deepak Jaiswal and
      Megan L. Matthews and Fernando E. Miguez and Stephen P. Long and
      Justin M. McGrath},
    doi = {10.1093/insilicoplants/diac003},
    journal = {in silico Plants},
    number = {1},
    pages = {diac003},
    title = {BioCro II: a software package for modular crop growth
      simulations},
    volume = {4},
    year = {2022},
  }
  @Article{,
    author = {Fernando E. Miguez and Xinguang Zhu and Stephen Humphries
      and German A. Bollero and Stephen P. Long},
    doi = {10.1111/j.1757-1707.2009.01019.x},
    journal = {GCB Bioenergy},
    number = {4},
    pages = {282},
    pages = {296},
    title = {A semimechanistic model predicting the growth and
      production of the bioenergy crop Miscanthus x giganteus:
      description, parameterization and validation},
    volume = {1},
    year = {2009},
  }