To cite reconf in publications use:

Shedden M, Ekvall K (2026). “Score-based confidence intervals for variance-covariance parameters in linear mixed models.” doi:10.48550/arXiv.2610.04181. arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.04181.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Misc{,
    title = {Score-based confidence intervals for variance-covariance
      parameters in linear mixed models},
    author = {Matias Shedden and Karl Oskar Ekvall},
    year = {2026},
    note = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.04181},
    doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2610.04181},
  }