To cite the original research article where the methods were introduced, use:

Tanaka K, Vega Yon G (2024). “Imaginary Network Motifs: Structural Patterns of False Positives and Negatives in Social Networks.” Social Networks, 78, 65–80. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2023.11.005, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873323000813.

And the actual R package:

Najafzadehkhoei S, Vega Yon G, Tanaka K (2025). imaginarycss: Tools for Studying Imaginary Cognitive Social Structure. R package version 0.1.0, https://github.com/gvegayon/imaginarycss.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {Imaginary Network Motifs: Structural Patterns of False
      Positives and Negatives in Social Networks},
    author = {Kyosuke Tanaka and George G. {Vega Yon}},
    year = {2024},
    month = {jul},
    journal = {Social Networks},
    volume = {78},
    pages = {65--80},
    doi = {10.1016/j.socnet.2023.11.005},
    url =
      {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873323000813},
  }

  @Manual{,
    title = {imaginarycss: Tools for Studying Imaginary Cognitive
      Social Structure},
    author = {Sima Najafzadehkhoei and George {Vega Yon} and Kyosuke
      Tanaka},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0},
    url = {https://github.com/gvegayon/imaginarycss},
  }