When referencing the BioCro R package in a scientific publication, please cite the two journal articles below. Additionally, cite the package itself or otherwise specify its version number. Citation for this version of the BioCro R package:

McGrath J, Lochocki E, He Y, Oswald S, Rohde S, Jaiswal D, Matthews M, Miguez F, Long S (2025). BioCro: Modular Crop Growth Simulations. R package version 3.2.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BioCro.

Journal article describing the modular version of BioCro:

Lochocki E, Rohde S, Jaiswal D, Matthews M, Miguez F, Long S, McGrath J (2022). “BioCro II: a software package for modular crop growth simulations.” in silico Plants, 4(1), diac003. doi:10.1093/insilicoplants/diac003.

Journal article describing the first version of BioCro:

Miguez F, Zhu X, Humphries S, Bollero G, Long S (2009). “A semimechanistic model predicting the growth and production of the bioenergy crop Miscanthus x giganteus: description, parameterization and validation.” GCB Bioenergy, 1(4), 282 296. doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2009.01019.x.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {BioCro: Modular Crop Growth Simulations},
    author = {Justin M. McGrath and Edward B. Lochocki and Yufeng He
      and Scott W. Oswald and Scott Rohde and Deepak Jaiswal and Megan
      L. Matthews and Fernando E. Miguez and Stephen P. Long},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 3.2.0},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BioCro},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Edward B Lochocki and Scott Rohde and Deepak Jaiswal and
      Megan L. Matthews and Fernando E. Miguez and Stephen P. Long and
      Justin M. McGrath},
    doi = {10.1093/insilicoplants/diac003},
    journal = {in silico Plants},
    number = {1},
    pages = {diac003},
    title = {BioCro II: a software package for modular crop growth
      simulations},
    volume = {4},
    year = {2022},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Fernando E. Miguez and Xinguang Zhu and Stephen Humphries
      and German A. Bollero and Stephen P. Long},
    doi = {10.1111/j.1757-1707.2009.01019.x},
    journal = {GCB Bioenergy},
    number = {4},
    pages = {282 296},
    title = {A semimechanistic model predicting the growth and
      production of the bioenergy crop Miscanthus x giganteus:
      description, parameterization and validation},
    volume = {1},
    year = {2009},
  }