To cite package spanner in publications use:

Sanchez Meador A, Donager J, Ryan B (2026). spanner: Utilities to Support Lidar Applications at the Landscape, Forest, and Tree Scale. doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.spanner, R package version 1.0.2, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=spanner.

Donager, J. J, Meador S, J. A, Blackburn, C. R (2021). “Adjudicating Perspectives on Forest Structure: How Do Airborne, Terrestrial, and Mobile Lidar-Derived Estimates Compare?” Remote Sensing, 13(12). ISSN 2072-4292, doi:10.3390/rs13122297, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13122297.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {spanner: Utilities to Support Lidar Applications at the
      Landscape, Forest, and Tree Scale},
    author = {Andrew {Sanchez Meador} and Jonathon Donager and
      Blackburn Ryan},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 1.0.2},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=spanner},
    doi = {10.32614/CRAN.package.spanner},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {{Donager} and Jonathon J. and Sánchez Meador and Andrew
      J. and {Blackburn} and Ryan C.},
    title = {Adjudicating Perspectives on Forest Structure: How Do
      Airborne, Terrestrial, and Mobile Lidar-Derived Estimates
      Compare?},
    journal = {Remote Sensing},
    volume = {13},
    number = {12},
    year = {2021},
    issn = {2072-4292},
    doi = {10.3390/rs13122297},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13122297},
  }