To cite manystates in publications use:

  James Hollway (2025) ‘manystates: Many data on state and state-like
  actors in the international system’. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5205704.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {manystates: Many data on state and state-like actors in the international system},
    author = {James Hollway},
    year = {2025},
    url = {https://github.com/globalgov/manystates},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5205704},
  }