To cite batch in publications use:

Hoffmann TJ (2011). “Passing in Command Line Arguments and Parallel Cluster/Multicore Batching in R with batch.” Journal of Statistical Software, Code Snippets, 39(1), 1–11. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v39/c01/.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {Passing in Command Line Arguments and Parallel
      Cluster/Multicore Batching in {R} with {batch}},
    author = {Thomas J. Hoffmann},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software, Code Snippets},
    year = {2011},
    volume = {39},
    number = {1},
    pages = {1--11},
    url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v39/c01/},
  }