How to cite the R package malan

malan is a popular R package that is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/malan/index.html. 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 malan package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the malan package (v1.0.2; Andersen & Balding, 2017).

Reference list entry

Andersen, M. M., & Balding, D. J. (2017). How convincing is a matching Y-chromosome profile? PLoS Genetics, 13(11), e1007028.

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 malan package v1.0.2 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Andersen MM, Balding DJ. How convincing is a matching Y-chromosome profile? PLoS Genet. 2017 Nov 3;13(11):e1007028.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Andersen2017-hw,
  title     = "How convincing is a matching Y-chromosome profile?",
  author    = "Andersen, Mikkel M and Balding, David J",
  journal   = "PLoS Genet.",
  publisher = "Public Library of Science (PLoS)",
  volume    =  13,
  number    =  11,
  pages     = "e1007028",
  month     =  nov,
  year      =  2017,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007028",
  copyright = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  language  = "en",
  issn      = "1553-7390, 1553-7404",
  doi       = "10.1371/journal.pgen.1007028"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Andersen, Mikkel M
AU  - Balding, David J
TI  - How convincing is a matching Y-chromosome profile?
T2  - PLoS Genet.
VL  - 13
IS  - 11
SP  - e1007028
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/11/3
PB  - Public Library of Science (PLoS)
SN  - 1553-7390
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007028
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007028
ER  -

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