What is the best practice for dependency injection annotation with AngularJS?

So thanks to ng-annotate, now we can minify our code successfully when it looks like this:

angular.module('YeomanApp')
  .controller('YeoCtrl', function ($scope) {
   $scope.awesomeThings = [
     'HTML5 Boilerplate',
     'AngularJS',
     'Karma'
    ];
   });

Are there any advantages to this form over this form:

angular.module('YeomanApp')
  .controller('YeoCtrl', ['$scope', function ($scope) {
   $scope.awesomeThings = [
     'HTML5 Boilerplate',
     'AngularJS',
     'Karma'
    ];
   }]);

The latter explicit dependency declaration seems to be the norm, but are there any advantages or reasons to continue using it at this point?

It depends on your project. If you are using the ngAnnotate for your project -- and it works for all your DI cases -- use it. Just be sure that all your devs follow this convention. Be aware that ngAnnotate or a similar tool is a requirement for minification.

In general, using the inline annotation seems to be preferred, as it has no dependency on a build tool like ngAnnotate. But there is no reason why using ngAnnotate should not work.

There is a third option as well

MyCtrl = function($scope) {
  $scope.awecomeThings = [...];  
} 
MyCtrl.$inject = ['$scope'];

angular.module('YourApp').controller('MyCTrl', MyCtrl);

This looks really nice if using TypeScript (maybe CoffeeScript too?)

class MyCtrl {
    static $inject = ['$scope'];
    contructor($scope: any) { // shouldn't use any, but this is just an example
        $scope.awesomeThings = [...];
    }
}

angular.module('YourApp').controller('MyCtrl', MyCtrl);