To cite balance in publications use:

Quinn T. 2018. Visualizing balances of compositional data: A new alternative to balance dendrograms. F1000Research, 7:1278. URL http://f1000research.com/articles/7-1278/.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {Visualizing balances of compositional data: A new
      alternative to balance dendrograms},
    author = {Thomas Quinn},
    journal = {F1000Research},
    year = {2018},
    volume = {7},
    number = {1278},
    url = {http://f1000research.com/articles/7-1278/},
  }