To cite lavaan in publications please use:

Rosseel Y., Jorgensen T. D., De Wilde L. (2026). lavaan: Latent Variable Analysis. R package version 0.7-1. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.lavaan

Rosseel, Y. (2012). lavaan: An R Package for Structural Equation Modeling. Journal of Statistical Software, 48(2), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v048.i02

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {{lavaan}: Latent Variable Analysis},
    author = {Yves Rosseel and Terrence D. Jorgensen and Luc {De
      Wilde}},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.7-1},
    doi = {10.32614/CRAN.package.lavaan},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lavaan},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {{lavaan}: An {R} Package for Structural Equation
      Modeling},
    author = {Yves Rosseel},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2012},
    volume = {48},
    number = {2},
    pages = {1--36},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v048.i02},
  }