There are two publications about blavaan, one describing the Stan methods and one describing the JAGS methods.

If you use Stan, please cite:

Merkle EC, Fitzsimmons E, Uanhoro J, Goodrich B (2021). “Efficient Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling in Stan.” Journal of Statistical Software, 100(6), 1–22. doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i06.

If you use target='jags', please cite:

Merkle EC, Rosseel Y (2018). “blavaan: Bayesian Structural Equation Models via Parameter Expansion.” Journal of Statistical Software, 85(4), 1–30. doi:10.18637/jss.v085.i04.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {Efficient {Bayesian} Structural Equation Modeling in
      {Stan}},
    author = {Edgar C. Merkle and Ellen Fitzsimmons and James Uanhoro
      and Ben Goodrich},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2021},
    volume = {100},
    number = {6},
    pages = {1--22},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v100.i06},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {{blavaan: Bayesian} Structural Equation Models via
      Parameter Expansion},
    author = {Edgar C. Merkle and Yves Rosseel},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2018},
    volume = {85},
    number = {4},
    pages = {1--30},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v085.i04},
  }