To cite package ‘xgboost’ in publications use:

Chen T, He T, Benesty M, Khotilovich V, Tang Y, Cho H, Chen K, Mitchell R, Cano I, Zhou T, Li M, Xie J, Lin M, Geng Y, Li Y, Yuan J, Cortes D (2026). xgboost: Extreme Gradient Boosting. R package version 3.2.1.1, https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Manual{,
    title = {xgboost: Extreme Gradient Boosting},
    author = {Tianqi Chen and Tong He and Michael Benesty and Vadim
      Khotilovich and Yuan Tang and Hyunsu Cho and Kailong Chen and
      Rory Mitchell and Ignacio Cano and Tianyi Zhou and Mu Li and
      Junyuan Xie and Min Lin and Yifeng Geng and Yutian Li and Jiaming
      Yuan and David Cortes},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 3.2.1.1},
    url = {https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost},
  }