How to cite the Bioconductor package minfi

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the minfi package (v1.36.0; Aryee et al., 2014).

Reference list entry

Aryee, M. J., Jaffe, A. E., Corrada-Bravo, H., Ladd-Acosta, C., Feinberg, A. P., Hansen, K. D., & Irizarry, R. A. (2014). Minfi: a flexible and comprehensive Bioconductor package for the analysis of Infinium DNA methylation microarrays. Bioinformatics, 30(10), 1363–1369.

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 minfi package v1.36.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Aryee MJ, Jaffe AE, Corrada-Bravo H, Ladd-Acosta C, Feinberg AP, Hansen KD, et al. Minfi: a flexible and comprehensive Bioconductor package for the analysis of Infinium DNA methylation microarrays. Bioinformatics. 2014 May 15;30(10):1363–9.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Aryee2014-of,
  title     = "Minfi: a flexible and comprehensive Bioconductor package for the
               analysis of Infinium {DNA} methylation microarrays",
  author    = "Aryee, Martin J and Jaffe, Andrew E and Corrada-Bravo, Hector
               and Ladd-Acosta, Christine and Feinberg, Andrew P and Hansen,
               Kasper D and Irizarry, Rafael A",
  journal   = "Bioinformatics",
  publisher = "Oxford University Press (OUP)",
  volume    =  30,
  number    =  10,
  pages     = "1363--1369",
  month     =  may,
  year      =  2014,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu049",
  language  = "en",
  issn      = "1460-2059, 1367-4803",
  doi       = "10.1093/bioinformatics/btu049"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Aryee, Martin J
AU  - Jaffe, Andrew E
AU  - Corrada-Bravo, Hector
AU  - Ladd-Acosta, Christine
AU  - Feinberg, Andrew P
AU  - Hansen, Kasper D
AU  - Irizarry, Rafael A
TI  - Minfi: a flexible and comprehensive Bioconductor package for the analysis
      of Infinium DNA methylation microarrays
T2  - Bioinformatics
VL  - 30
IS  - 10
SP  - 1363-1369
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2014/5/15
PB  - Oxford University Press (OUP)
SN  - 1460-2059
DO  - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu049
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu049
ER  -

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