To cite package ‘BAT’ in publications use:

  Cardoso P, Mammola S, Rigal F, Hilario R, Carvalho J (2026). _BAT:
  Biodiversity Assessment Tools_. R package version 2.11.1,
  <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BAT>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {BAT: Biodiversity Assessment Tools},
    author = {Pedro Cardoso and Stefano Mammola and Francois Rigal and Renato Hilario and Jose Carvalho},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 2.11.1},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BAT},
  }