How to format your references using the Epigenetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	Download the output style file
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

Onozuka D. Effect of non-stationary climate on infectious gastroenteritis transmission in Japan. Sci Rep 2014; 4:5157.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trimble SW, Crosson P. LAND USE: U.S. Soil Erosion Rates--Myth and Reality. Science 2000; 289:248–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Durham WM, Kessler JO, Stocker R. Disruption of vertical motility by shear triggers formation of thin phytoplankton layers. Science 2009; 323:1067–70.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lunzer M, Miller SP, Felsheim R, Dean AM. The biochemical architecture of an ancient adaptive landscape. Science 2005; 310:499–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Killops S, Killops V. Introduction to Organic Geochemistry. Malden, MA USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2004.

An edited book

Warwick D. Handbook of Thromboprophylaxis. Second Edition. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Nedjar S, Casali A, Cicchetti R, Lakhal L. Upper Borders for Emerging Cubes. In: Song I-Y, Eder J, Nguyen TM, editors. Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery: 10th International Conference, DaWaK 2008 Turin, Italy, September 2-5, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. page 45–54.

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 Epigenetics.

Blog post

Andrew E. Stem Cells May Hold The Key To Fixing A Mutated Gene That Causes Blindness [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cells-may-hold-key-fixing-mutated-gene-causes-blindness/

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

Government Accountability Office. Science And Technology: Air Force’s Planning Process Meets Statutory Requirement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shimizu K. The Procurement System of the Japanese Space Agency: Present Challenges, Future Promise. 2013;

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

Murphy MJO. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times2015; :C27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Epigenetics
Abbreviation	Epigenetics
ISSN (print)	1559-2294
ISSN (online)	1559-2308
Scope	Cancer Research Molecular Biology