To cite contentiousR in publications, please use:

Guseinov R (2026). “contentiousR: An R Package for Contentious Politics and Civil Conflict Research.” SSRN preprint. doi:10.2139/ssrn.7506799.

To cite the software itself (e.g. to record the exact version used):

Guseinov R (2026). contentiousR: Contentious Politics and Civil Conflict Research. R package version 0.1.0, https://github.com/rguseinov/contentiousR.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Misc{,
    title = {{contentiousR}: An {R} Package for Contentious Politics
      and Civil Conflict Research},
    author = {Ruslan Guseinov},
    year = {2026},
    howpublished = {SSRN preprint},
    doi = {10.2139/ssrn.7506799},
  }

  @Manual{,
    title = {{contentiousR}: Contentious Politics and Civil Conflict
      Research},
    author = {Ruslan Guseinov},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0},
    url = {https://github.com/rguseinov/contentiousR},
  }