To cite aplot in publications use:

Shuangbin Xu, Wang Q, Wen S, Li J, He N, Li M, Hackl T, Wang R, Zeng D, Wang S, Li S, Gao C, Zhou L, Tao S, Xie Z, Deng L, Yu G (2025). “aplot: Simplifying the creation of complex graphs to visualize associations across diverse data types.” The Innovation, 6, 100958. doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2025.100958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2025.100958.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {aplot: Simplifying the creation of complex graphs to
      visualize associations across diverse data types.},
    author = {{Shuangbin Xu} and Qianwen Wang and Shaodi Wen and Junrui
      Li and Nan He and Ming Li and Thomas Hackl and Rui Wang and
      Dongqiang Zeng and Shixiang Wang and Shensuo Li and Chun-Hui Gao
      and Lang Zhou and Shaoguo Tao and Zijing Xie and Lin Deng and
      Guangchuang Yu},
    year = {2025},
    journal = {The Innovation},
    volume = {6},
    issue = {9},
    pages = {100958.},
    doi = {10.1016/j.xinn.2025.100958},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2025.100958},
  }