How to format your references using the Clinical Epigenetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Epigenetics. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Smith M. Time to turn off the lights. Nature. 2009;457:27.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Behnia R, Munro S. Organelle identity and the signposts for membrane traffic. Nature. 2005;438:597–604.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mosey NJ, Müser MH, Woo TK. Molecular mechanisms for the functionality of lubricant additives. Science. 2005;307:1612–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Watanabe O, Jouzel J, Johnsen S, Parrenin F, Shoji H, Yoshida N. Homogeneous climate variability across East Antarctica over the past three glacial cycles. Nature. 2003;422:509–12.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Habart-Corlosquet M, Janssen J, Manca R. VaR Methodology for Non-Gaussian Finance. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Tobin K, Shady A, editors. Transforming Urban Education: Urban Teachers and Students Working Collaboratively. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lalanda P, McCann JA, Diaconescu A. Autonomic Computing Architectures. In: McCann JA, Diaconescu A, editors. Autonomic Computing: Principles, Design and Implementation. London: Springer; 2013. p. 95–128.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Clinical Epigenetics.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Five Human Spaceflight Missions To Look Forward To In The Next Decade [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/five-human-spaceflight-missions-look-forward-next-decade/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Assessment of the Explanation That Immigration and Customs Enforcement Provided for Its Subsequent Transfer from the Spectrum Relocation Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Sep. Report No.: GAO-08-846R.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Carver JR. CMO: Chief Marketing Officer or chief “marginalized” officer [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2009.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Vecsey G. From the Men, A Few Highlights After the Deluge. New York Times. 2011 Sep 11;SP9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Epigenetics
Abbreviation	Clin. Epigenetics
ISSN (online)	1868-7083
Scope	Developmental Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Genetics(clinical)