To cite TraMineR in publications please use:

For state sequences:

Gabadinho, A., Ritschard, G., Müller, N. S., Studer, M. (2011). Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in R with TraMineR. Journal of Statistical Software, 40(4), 1-37. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i04/.

For dissimilarity analysis:

Studer, M., Ritschard, G., Gabadinho, A. & Müller, N.S. (2011), Discrepancy analysis of state sequences, Sociological Methods and Research, 40(3), 471-510. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124111415372

Studer, M., Ritschard, G., Gabadinho, A. & Müller, N.S. (2010), Discrepancy analysis of complex objects using dissimilarities, In Guillet, F., Ritschard, G., Zighed, D.A. & Briand, H. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management. Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence. Volume 292, pp. 3-19. Berlin: Springer.

For representative sequences:

Gabadinho, A., Ritschard, G., Studer, M. & Müller, N.S. (2011), Extracting and Rendering Representative Sequences, In A. Fred, J.L.G. Dietz, K. Liu, J. Filipe (eds.), Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Vol. 128, pp. 94-106. Springer-Verlag.

For longitudinal characteristics and the complexity index:

Gabadinho, A., Ritschard, G., Studer, M. & Müller, N.S. (2010), Indice de complexité pour le tri et la comparaison de séquences catégorielles, In Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010), Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information RNTI. Vol. E-19, pp. 61-66.

For event sequences:

Müller, N.S., Studer, M., Gabadinho, A. & Ritschard, G. (2010), Extraction de règles d'association séquentielle à l'aide de modèles semi-paramétriques à risques proportionnels, In Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010), Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information RNTI. Vol. E-19, pp. 25-36.

Studer, M., Müller, N.S., Ritschard, G. & Gabadinho, A. (2010), Classer, discriminer et visualiser des séquences d'événements, In Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010), Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information RNTI. Vol. E-19, pp. 37-48.

Bürgin, R. & Ritschard, G. (2012), Categorical parallel coordinate plot, In LaCOSA Lausanne Conference On Sequence Analysis, University of Lausanne, June 6th-8th 2012 (Poster), http://www3.unil.ch/wpmu/sequences2012/files/2012/05/Buergin_LaCOSA_Poster.pdf

See ‘citation()’ for citing R itself.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in {R} with
      {TraMineR}},
    author = {Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard and Nicolas S.
      Müller and Matthias Studer},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2011},
    volume = {40},
    number = {4},
    pages = {1--37},
    url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i04/},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Matthias Studer and Gilbert Ritschard and Alexis
      Gabadinho and Nicolas S. Müller},
    title = {Discrepancy analysis of state sequences},
    journal = {Sociological Methods and Research},
    year = {2011},
    volume = {40},
    number = {3},
    pages = {471--510},
    doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124111415372},
  }

  @InCollection{,
    author = {Matthias Studer and Gilbert Ritschard and Alexis
      Gabadinho and Nicolas S. Müller},
    title = {Discrepancy analysis of complex objects using
      dissimilarities},
    booktitle = {Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management},
    publisher = {Springer},
    year = {2010},
    editor = {Fabrice Guillet and Gilbert Ritschard and Djamel A.
      Zighed and Henri Briand},
    series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
    address = {Berlin},
    note = {292},
    pages = {3-19},
  }

  @InCollection{,
    author = {Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard and Matthias
      Studer and Nicolas S. Müller},
    title = {Extracting and Rendering Representative Sequences},
    booktitle = {Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and
      Knowledge Management},
    publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
    year = {2011},
    editor = {A. Fred and J.L.G. Dietz and K. Liu and J. Filipe},
    pages = {94-106},
    note = {128},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard and Matthias
      Studer and Nicolas S. Müller},
    title = {Indice de complexité pour le tri et la comparaison de
      séquences catégorielles},
    booktitle = {Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010)},
    journal = {Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information
      (RNTI)},
    year = {2010},
    volume = {E-19},
    booktitle = {Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010)},
    pages = {61-66},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Nicolas S. Müller and Matthias Studer and Gilbert
      Ritschard and Alexis Gabadinho},
    title = {Extraction de règles d'association séquentielle à l'aide
      de modèles semi-paramétriques à risques proportionnels},
    journal = {Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information
      (RNTI)},
    year = {2010},
    volume = {E-19},
    pages = {25-36},
    booktitle = {Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010)},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Matthias Studer and Nicolas S. Müller and Gilbert
      Ritschard and Alexis Gabadinho},
    title = {Classer, discriminer et visualiser des séquences
      d'événements},
    journal = {Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information
      (RNTI)},
    year = {2010},
    volume = {E-19},
    pages = {37-48},
    booktitle = {Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010)},
  }

  @InProceedings{,
    author = {Reto Bürgin and Gilbert Ritschard},
    title = {Categorical parallel coordinate plot},
    booktitle = {{LaCOSA} {L}ausanne Conference On Sequence Analysis,
      {U}niversity of {L}ausanne, June 6th-8th 2012},
    year = {2012},
    note = {Poster},
    url =
      {http://www3.unil.ch/wpmu/sequences2012/files/2012/05/Buergin_LaCOSA_Poster.pdf},
  }