To cite metagear in a publication use:

Lajeunesse, M.J. (2016) Facilitating systematic reviews, data extraction, and meta-analysis with the metagear package for R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7: 323-330.

Additions and modifications to metagear are frequent, to help with reproducibility of output please cite its version number. Find it using packageDescription().

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {Facilitating systematic reviews, data extraction, and
      meta-analysis with the metagear package for R},
    author = {Marc J. Lajeunesse},
    journal = {Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
    year = {2016},
    volume = {7},
    pages = {323-330},
  }