To cite the 'blackbox' package or the 'Migraine' software in publications use:

Rousset F (2023). blackbox: Black Box Optimization and Exploration of Parameter Space. doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.blackbox, R package version 1.1.46, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=blackbox.

Rousset F, Leblois R (2007). “Likelihood and approximate likelihood analyses of genetic structure in a linear habitat: performance and robustness to model mis-specification.” Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24, 2730-2745. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msm206.

Rousset F, Leblois R (2012). “Likelihood-based inferences under isolation by distance: two-dimensional habitats and confidence intervals.” Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29, 957-973. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msr262.

Leblois R, Pudlo P, Néron J, Bertaux F, Beeravolu CR, Vitalis R, Rousset F (2014). “Maximum likelihood inference of population size contractions from microsatellite data.” Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31, 2805-2823. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msu212.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {blackbox: Black Box Optimization and Exploration of
      Parameter Space},
    author = {François Rousset},
    year = {2023},
    note = {R package version 1.1.46},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=blackbox},
    doi = {10.32614/CRAN.package.blackbox},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {François Rousset and Raphaël Leblois},
    title = {Likelihood and approximate likelihood analyses of genetic
      structure in a linear habitat: performance and robustness to
      model mis-specification},
    journal = {Molecular Biology and Evolution},
    year = {2007},
    volume = {24},
    pages = {2730-2745},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msm206},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {François Rousset and Raphaël Leblois},
    title = {Likelihood-based inferences under isolation by distance:
      two-dimensional habitats and confidence intervals},
    journal = {Molecular Biology and Evolution},
    year = {2012},
    volume = {29},
    pages = {957-973},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msr262},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {Raphaël Leblois and Pierre Pudlo and Joseph Néron and
      François Bertaux and Champak Reddy Beeravolu and Renaud Vitalis
      and François Rousset},
    title = {Maximum likelihood inference of population size
      contractions from microsatellite data},
    journal = {Molecular Biology and Evolution},
    year = {2014},
    volume = {31},
    pages = {2805-2823},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msu212},
  }