To cite package ‘essential8’ in publications use:

Richardson C (2026). essential8: Reproducible Cardiovascular Health Metric Scoring. R package version 0.2.0, https://github.com/thatoneguy006/essential8.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Manual{,
    title = {essential8: Reproducible Cardiovascular Health Metric
      Scoring},
    author = {Carson Richardson},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.2.0},
    url = {https://github.com/thatoneguy006/essential8},
  }