There are several publications about strucchange which describe different aspects of the software. The main reference is the JSS paper.
To cite strucchange in publications use:
Zeileis A, Leisch F, Hornik K, Kleiber C (2002). “strucchange: An R Package for Testing for Structural Change in Linear Regression Models.” Journal of Statistical Software, 7(2), 1–38. doi: 10.18637/jss.v007.i02.
If methods related to breakpoints() are used also cite:
Zeileis A, Kleiber C, Krämer W, Hornik K (2003). “Testing and Dating of Structural Changes in Practice.” Computational Statistics \& Data Analysis, 44, 109–123.
If methods related to gefp() and efpFunctional() are used also cite:
Zeileis A (2006). “Implementing a Class of Structural Change Tests: An Econometric Computing Approach.” Computational Statistics \& Data Analysis, 50, 2987–3008.
Corresponding BibTeX entries:
@Article{, title = {strucchange: An R Package for Testing for Structural Change in Linear Regression Models}, author = {Achim Zeileis and Friedrich Leisch and Kurt Hornik and Christian Kleiber}, journal = {Journal of Statistical Software}, year = {2002}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {1--38}, doi = {10.18637/jss.v007.i02}, }
@Article{, title = {Testing and Dating of Structural Changes in Practice}, author = {Achim Zeileis and Christian Kleiber and Walter Kr\"amer and Kurt Hornik}, journal = {Computational Statistics \& Data Analysis}, year = {2003}, volume = {44}, pages = {109--123}, }
@Article{, title = {Implementing a Class of Structural Change Tests: An Econometric Computing Approach}, author = {Achim Zeileis}, journal = {Computational Statistics \& Data Analysis}, year = {2006}, volume = {50}, pages = {2987--3008}, }