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>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @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},
  }