How to cite the Bioconductor package bacon

bacon is a popular Bioconductor package that is available at https://bioconductor.org/packages/bacon. By citing R packages in your paper you lay the grounds for others to be able to reproduce your analysis and secondly you are acknowledging the time and work people have spent creating the package.

APA citation

Formatted according to the APA Publication Manual 7^th edition. Simply copy it to the References page as is.

APA

The minimal requirement is to cite the R package in text along with the version number. Additionally, you can include the reference list entry the authors of the bacon package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the bacon package (v1.18.0; van Iterson et al., 2017).

Reference list entry

van Iterson, M., van Zwet, E.W., Heijmans, & B.T. (2017). Controlling bias and inflation in epigenome- and transcriptome-wide association studies using the empirical null distribution. In Genome Biology (Vol. 18, Issue 1, p. 19).

Vancouver citation

Formatted according to Vancouver style. Simply copy it to the references section as is.

Vancouver

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the bacon package v1.18.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
van Iterson, M., van Zwet, E.W., Heijmans, B.T. Controlling bias and inflation in epigenome- and transcriptome-wide association studies using the empirical null distribution. Vol. 18, Genome Biology. 2017. p. 19.

BibTeX

Reference entry in BibTeX format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.

BibTeX

@MISC{Van_Iterson2017-ym,
  title   = "Controlling bias and inflation in epigenome- and
             transcriptome-wide association studies using the empirical null
             distribution",
  author  = "{van Iterson} and {M.} and {van Zwet} and {E.W.} and {Heijmans}
             and {B.T.}",
  journal = "Genome Biology",
  volume  =  18,
  number  =  1,
  pages   = "19",
  month   =  jan,
  year    =  2017
}

RIS

Reference entry in RIS format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.

RIS

TY  - MISC
AU  - van Iterson
AU  - M.
AU  - van Zwet
AU  - E.W.
AU  - Heijmans
AU  - B.T.
TI  - Controlling bias and inflation in epigenome- and transcriptome-wide
      association studies using the empirical null distribution
T2  - Genome Biology
VL  - 18
IS  - 1
SP  - 19
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/1
ER  -

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