How to cite the Bioconductor package limma

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the limma package (v3.46.0; Ritchie et al., 2015).

Reference list entry

Ritchie, M. E., Phipson, B., Wu, D., Hu, Y., Law, C. W., Shi, W., & Smyth, G. K. (2015). limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies. Nucleic Acids Research, 43(7), e47–e47.

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 limma package v3.46.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Ritchie ME, Phipson B, Wu D, Hu Y, Law CW, Shi W, et al. limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Apr 20;43(7):e47–e47.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Ritchie2015-ms,
  title     = "limma powers differential expression analyses for
               {RNA-sequencing} and microarray studies",
  author    = "Ritchie, Matthew E and Phipson, Belinda and Wu, Di and Hu,
               Yifang and Law, Charity W and Shi, Wei and Smyth, Gordon K",
  journal   = "Nucleic Acids Res.",
  publisher = "Oxford University Press (OUP)",
  volume    =  43,
  number    =  7,
  pages     = "e47--e47",
  month     =  apr,
  year      =  2015,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv007",
  copyright = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  language  = "en",
  issn      = "0305-1048, 1362-4962",
  doi       = "10.1093/nar/gkv007"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ritchie, Matthew E
AU  - Phipson, Belinda
AU  - Wu, Di
AU  - Hu, Yifang
AU  - Law, Charity W
AU  - Shi, Wei
AU  - Smyth, Gordon K
TI  - limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and
      microarray studies
T2  - Nucleic Acids Res.
VL  - 43
IS  - 7
SP  - e47-e47
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/4/20
PB  - Oxford University Press (OUP)
SN  - 0305-1048
DO  - 10.1093/nar/gkv007
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv007
ER  -

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