How to cite the Bioconductor package girafe
girafe is a popular Bioconductor package that is available at https://bioconductor.org/packages/girafe. 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 7th edition. Simply copy it to the References page as is.
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 girafe package have suggested.
Example of an in-text citation
Analysis of the data was done using the girafe package (v1.42.0; Toedling et al., 2010).
Reference list entry
Toedling, J., Ciaudo, C., Voinnet, O., Heard, E., & Barillot, E. (2010). girafe - an R/Bioconductor package for functional exploration of aligned next-generation sequencing reads. Bioinformatics, 26(22), 2902–2903.
Vancouver citation
Formatted according to Vancouver style. Simply copy it to the references section as is.
Example of an in-text citation
Analysis of the data was done using the girafe package v1.42.0 (1).
Reference list entry
1.Toedling J, Ciaudo C, Voinnet O, Heard E, Barillot E. girafe - an R/Bioconductor package for functional exploration of aligned next-generation sequencing reads. Bioinformatics. 2010 Nov 15;26(22):2902–3.
BibTeX
Reference entry in BibTeX format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.
@ARTICLE{Toedling2010-ly, title = "girafe - an {R/Bioconductor} package for functional exploration of aligned next-generation sequencing reads", author = "Toedling, J and Ciaudo, C and Voinnet, O and Heard, E and Barillot, E", journal = "Bioinformatics", publisher = "Oxford University Press (OUP)", volume = 26, number = 22, pages = "2902--2903", month = nov, year = 2010, url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq531", language = "en", issn = "1367-4803, 1460-2059", doi = "10.1093/bioinformatics/btq531" }
RIS
Reference entry in RIS format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.
TY - JOUR AU - Toedling, J AU - Ciaudo, C AU - Voinnet, O AU - Heard, E AU - Barillot, E TI - girafe - an R/Bioconductor package for functional exploration of aligned next-generation sequencing reads T2 - Bioinformatics VL - 26 IS - 22 SP - 2902-2903 PY - 2010 DA - 2010/11/15 PB - Oxford University Press (OUP) SN - 1367-4803 DO - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq531 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq531 ER -
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