To cite package ‘lightgbm’ in publications use:

  Shi Y, Ke G, Soukhavong D, Lamb J, Meng Q, Finley T, Wang T, Chen W,
  Ma W, Ye Q, Liu T, Titov N, Cortes D (2026). _lightgbm: Light
  Gradient Boosting Machine_. R package version 4.7.0,
  <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lightgbm>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {lightgbm: Light Gradient Boosting Machine},
    author = {Yu Shi and Guolin Ke and Damien Soukhavong and James Lamb and Qi Meng and Thomas Finley and Taifeng Wang and Wei Chen and Weidong Ma and Qiwei Ye and Tie-Yan Liu and Nikita Titov and David Cortes},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 4.7.0},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lightgbm},
  }
