To cite package 'BaSTA' in publications use:

Fernando Colchero, Owen R. Jones, Maren Rebke (2012). “BaSTA: an R package for Bayesian estimation of age-specific mortality from incomplete mark-recapture/recovery data with covariates.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3, 466-470. R package version 2.0.2.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {BaSTA: an R package for Bayesian estimation of
      age-specific mortality from incomplete mark-recapture/recovery
      data with covariates},
    author = {{Fernando Colchero} and {Owen R. Jones} and {Maren
      Rebke}},
    year = {2012},
    journal = {Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
    volume = {3},
    pages = {466-470},
    note = {R package version 2.0.2},
  }