How to cite the Bioconductor package maftools

maftools is a popular Bioconductor package that is available at https://bioconductor.org/packages/maftools. 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 maftools package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the maftools package (v2.6.05; Mayakonda et al., 2018).

Reference list entry

Mayakonda, A., Lin, D.-C., Assenov, Y., Plass, C., & Koeffler, H. P. (2018). Maftools: efficient and comprehensive analysis of somatic variants in cancer. Genome Research, 28(11), 1747–1756.

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 maftools package v2.6.05 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Mayakonda A, Lin DC, Assenov Y, Plass C, Koeffler HP. Maftools: efficient and comprehensive analysis of somatic variants in cancer. Genome Res. 2018 Nov;28(11):1747–56.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Mayakonda2018-uk,
  title     = "Maftools: efficient and comprehensive analysis of somatic
               variants in cancer",
  author    = "Mayakonda, Anand and Lin, De-Chen and Assenov, Yassen and Plass,
               Christoph and Koeffler, H Phillip",
  journal   = "Genome Res.",
  publisher = "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory",
  volume    =  28,
  number    =  11,
  pages     = "1747--1756",
  month     =  nov,
  year      =  2018,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.239244.118",
  language  = "en",
  issn      = "1088-9051, 1549-5469",
  doi       = "10.1101/gr.239244.118"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mayakonda, Anand
AU  - Lin, De-Chen
AU  - Assenov, Yassen
AU  - Plass, Christoph
AU  - Koeffler, H Phillip
TI  - Maftools: efficient and comprehensive analysis of somatic variants in
      cancer
T2  - Genome Res.
VL  - 28
IS  - 11
SP  - 1747-1756
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/11
PB  - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SN  - 1088-9051
DO  - 10.1101/gr.239244.118
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.239244.118
ER  -

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