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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Abreu A. Harnessing new scientific capacity. Science 2012; 336:1397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laflamme MA, Murry CE. Heart regeneration. Nature 2011; 473:326–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jonsson GE, Miljkovic V, Dmitriev A. Nanoplasmon-enabled macroscopic thermal management. Sci Rep 2014; 4:5111.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ben-David U, Siranosian B, Ha G, Tang H, Oren Y, Hinohara K, Strathdee CA, Dempster J, Lyons NJ, Burns R, et al. Genetic and transcriptional evolution alters cancer cell line drug response. Nature 2018; 560:325–30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zauderer E. Partial Differential Equations of Applied Mathematics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Demetriou KN, editor. The European Union in Crisis: Explorations in Representation and Democratic Legitimacy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Hill LG. Classical Theory of Thermal Criticality. In: Asay BW, editor. Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, Vol. 5: Non-Shock Initiation of Explosives. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. page 129–243.

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

Taub B. All Psychoactive Substances Are Now Illegal In The UK. IFLScience2016;

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. FAA Alaska: Weak Controls Resulted in Improper and Wasteful Purchases. 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

Ayhan MS. A Probabilistic Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease. 2015;

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

Kelly D. Some Bad Role Models. New York Times1994; :718.

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