To cite package 'BaSTA' in publications use:

Colchero F, Jones OR, Rebke M (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 1.9.5.

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 1.9.5},
  }