How to cite the Bioconductor package vsn

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

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the vsn package (v3.58.0; Huber et al., 2002).

Reference list entry

Huber, W., von Heydebreck, A., Sueltmann, H., Poustka, A., & Vingron, M. (2002). Variance Stabilization Applied to Microarray Data Calibration and to the Quantification of Differential Expression. In Bioinformatics: Vol. 18 Suppl. 1 (pp. S96–S104).

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 vsn package v3.58.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Huber W, von Heydebreck A, Sueltmann H, Poustka A, Vingron M. Variance Stabilization Applied to Microarray Data Calibration and to the Quantification of Differential Expression. Vol. 18 Suppl. 1, Bioinformatics. 2002. p. S96–104.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@MISC{Huber2002-pq,
  title   = "Variance Stabilization Applied to Microarray Data Calibration and
             to the Quantification of Differential Expression",
  author  = "Huber, Wolfgang and von Heydebreck, Anja and Sueltmann, Holger and
             Poustka, Annemarie and Vingron, Martin",
  journal = "Bioinformatics",
  volume  = "18 Suppl. 1",
  pages   = "S96--S104",
  year    =  2002
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - MISC
AU  - Huber, Wolfgang
AU  - von Heydebreck, Anja
AU  - Sueltmann, Holger
AU  - Poustka, Annemarie
AU  - Vingron, Martin
TI  - Variance Stabilization Applied to Microarray Data Calibration and to the
      Quantification of Differential Expression
T2  - Bioinformatics
VL  - 18 Suppl. 1
SP  - S96-S104
PY  - 2002
DA  - 2002
ER  -

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