To cite package ‘catboostr’ in publications use:

  Dorogush A, Ershov V, Gulin A (2018). “CatBoost: gradient boosting
  with categorical features support.”
  <https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11363>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Misc{,
    title = {CatBoost: gradient boosting with categorical features support},
    author = {Anna Veronika Dorogush and Vasily Ershov and Andrey Gulin},
    year = {2018},
    url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11363},
  }

  Prokhorenkova L, Gusev G, Vorobev A, Dorogush A, Gulin A (2017).
  “CatBoost: unbiased boosting with categorical features.”
  <https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09516>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Misc{,
    title = {CatBoost: unbiased boosting with categorical features},
    author = {Liudmila Prokhorenkova and Gleb Gusev and Aleksandr Vorobev and Anna Veronika Dorogush and Andrey Gulin},
    year = {2017},
    url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09516},
  }