To cite relevent in publications, the Butts (2008) reference below is recommended; for papers using exogenous statistics or relevent with the informR package, Marcum and Butts (2015) is also suggested. Thank you for your support of relevent!

Carter T. Butts (2008). A Relational Event Framework for Social Action. Sociological Methodology, 38(1), 155--200.

Christopher Steven Marcum, Carter T. Butts (2015). Constructing and Modifying Sequence Statistics for relevent Using informR in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 64(5), 1-36. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v64/i05/.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {A Relational Event Framework for Social Action},
    author = {Carter T. Butts},
    journal = {Sociological Methodology},
    year = {2008},
    volume = {38},
    number = {1},
    pages = {155--200},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Constructing and Modifying Sequence Statistics for
      {relevent} Using {informR} in {R}},
    author = {Christopher Steven Marcum and Carter T. Butts},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2015},
    volume = {64},
    number = {5},
    pages = {1--36},
    url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v64/i05/},
  }