To cite package 'datelife' in publications, please use the first entry. To cite the accompanying paper, use the second entry:

Brian O'Meara, Luna L. Sanchez-Reyes, Jonathan Eastman, Tracy Heath, April Wright, Klaus Schliep, Scott Chamberlain, Peter Midford, Luke Harmon, Joseph Brown, Matt Pennell, Mike Alfaro, Emily Jane McTavish. 2026. datelife: Scientific Data on Time of Lineage Divergence for Your Taxa. R package version 0.6.9

Luna L. Sanchez-Reyes, Emily Jane McTavish, Brian O'Meara. 2022. datelife: Leveraging databases and analytical tools to reveal the dated Tree of Life. bioRxiv 782094; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/782094

As datelife is continually evolving, you may want to cite its version number. Find it with 'help(package=datelife)'.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {datelife: Scientific Data on Time of Lineage Divergence
      for Your Taxa},
    author = {Brian O'Meara and Luna L. Sanchez-Reyes and Jonathan
      Eastman and Tracy Heath and April Wright and Klaus Schliep and
      Scott Chamberlain and Peter Midford and Luke Harmon and Joseph
      Brown and Matt Pennell and Mike Alfaro and Emily Jane McTavish},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.6.9},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.593938},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {datelife: Leveraging databases and analytical tools to
      reveal the dated Tree of Life},
    author = {Luna L. Sanchez-Reyes and Emily Jane McTavish and Brian
      O'Meara},
    journal = {bioRxiv},
    year = {2022},
    volume = {782094},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1101/782094},
  }