To cite mdendro in publications use:

Fernández A, Gómez S (2025). “mdendro: An R Package for Extended Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering.” Journal of Statistical Software, 114(2), 1–26. doi:10.18637/jss.v114.i02.

For multifurcated dendrograms use:

Fernández A, Gómez S (2008). “Solving Non-Uniqueness in Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Using Multidendrograms.” Journal of Classification, 25(1), 43–65. doi:10.1007/s00357-008-9004-x.

For the corresponding linkage methods use:

Fernández A, Gómez S (2020). “Versatile Linkage: A Family of Space-Conserving Strategies for Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering.” Journal of Classification, 37(3), 584–597. doi:10.1007/s00357-019-09339-z.

For multifurcated neighbor-joining phylogenetic trees use:

Fernández A, Segura-Alabart N, Serratosa F (2023). “The MultiFurcating Neighbor-Joining Algorithm for Reconstructing Polytomic Phylogenetic Trees.” Journal of Molecular Evolution, 91, 773–779. doi:10.1007/s00239-023-10134-z.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {{mdendro}: An {R} Package for Extended Agglomerative
      Hierarchical Clustering},
    author = {Alberto Fern{\'a}ndez and Sergio G{\'o}mez},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2025},
    volume = {114},
    number = {2},
    pages = {1--26},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v114.i02},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Solving Non-Uniqueness in Agglomerative Hierarchical
      Clustering Using Multidendrograms},
    author = {Alberto Fern{\'a}ndez and Sergio G{\'o}mez},
    journal = {Journal of Classification},
    year = {2008},
    volume = {25},
    number = {1},
    pages = {43--65},
    doi = {10.1007/s00357-008-9004-x},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Versatile Linkage: A Family of Space-Conserving Strategies
      for Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering},
    author = {Alberto Fern{\'a}ndez and Sergio G{\'o}mez},
    journal = {Journal of Classification},
    year = {2020},
    volume = {37},
    number = {3},
    pages = {584--597},
    doi = {10.1007/s00357-019-09339-z},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {The MultiFurcating Neighbor-Joining Algorithm for
      Reconstructing Polytomic Phylogenetic Trees},
    author = {Alberto Fern{\'a}ndez and Nat{\`a}lia Segura-Alabart and
      Francesc Serratosa},
    journal = {Journal of Molecular Evolution},
    year = {2023},
    volume = {91},
    pages = {773--779},
    doi = {10.1007/s00239-023-10134-z},
  }