To cite package ‘authordown’ in publications use:

  Cao Z (2026). _authordown: Author Metadata Management and Manuscript
  Front Matter_. R package version 0.1.0,
  <https://github.com/zh1peng/authordown>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {authordown: Author Metadata Management and Manuscript Front Matter},
    author = {Zhipeng Cao},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0},
    url = {https://github.com/zh1peng/authordown},
  }