To cite package ‘S4Vectors’ in publications use:

  Pagès H, Lawrence M, Aboyoun P (2026). _S4Vectors: Foundation of
  vector-like and list-like containers in Bioconductor_. R package
  version 0.50.1, <https://bioconductor.org/packages/S4Vectors>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {S4Vectors: Foundation of vector-like and list-like containers in
Bioconductor},
    author = {Hervé Pagès and Michael Lawrence and Patrick Aboyoun},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.50.1},
    url = {https://bioconductor.org/packages/S4Vectors},
  }