To cite package ‘markdown’ in publications use:

Xie Y, Allaire J, Horner J (2025). markdown: A thin wrapper of 'litedown' to render Markdown documents. R package version 2.0.1, https://github.com/rstudio/markdown.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Manual{,
    title = {markdown: A thin wrapper of 'litedown' to render Markdown
      documents},
    author = {Yihui Xie and JJ Allaire and Jeffrey Horner},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 2.0.1},
    url = {https://github.com/rstudio/markdown},
  }