spoon is described in the following publication:

  Shah et al. (2025), Addressing the mean–variance relationship in
  spatially resolved transcriptomics data with spoon Biostatistics

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {Addressing the mean–variance relationship in spatially resolved transcriptomics data with spoon},
    author = {Kinnary Shah and Boyi Guo and Stephanie C. Hicks},
    journal = {Biostatistics},
    year = {2025},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxaf012},
  }