To cite the 'knitr' package in publications use:

Xie Y (2022). knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R. R package version 1.40, https://yihui.org/knitr/.

Xie Y (2015). Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, 2nd edition. Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 978-1498716963, https://yihui.org/knitr/.

Xie Y (2014). “knitr: A Comprehensive Tool for Reproducible Research in R.” In Stodden V, Leisch F, Peng RD (eds.), Implementing Reproducible Computational Research. Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN 978-1466561595, http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466561595.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report
      Generation in R},
    author = {Yihui Xie},
    year = {2022},
    note = {R package version 1.40},
    url = {https://yihui.org/knitr/},
  }

  @Book{,
    title = {Dynamic Documents with {R} and knitr},
    author = {Yihui Xie},
    publisher = {Chapman and Hall/CRC},
    address = {Boca Raton, Florida},
    year = {2015},
    edition = {2nd},
    note = {ISBN 978-1498716963},
    url = {https://yihui.org/knitr/},
  }

  @InCollection{,
    booktitle = {Implementing Reproducible Computational Research},
    editor = {Victoria Stodden and Friedrich Leisch and Roger D. Peng},
    title = {knitr: A Comprehensive Tool for Reproducible Research in
      {R}},
    author = {Yihui Xie},
    publisher = {Chapman and Hall/CRC},
    year = {2014},
    note = {ISBN 978-1466561595},
    url = {http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466561595},
  }