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

Ball P. Statistics: the physics of society. Nature 2002; 415:371.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu R, Lal R. Synthetic apatite nanoparticles as a phosphorus fertilizer for soybean (Glycine max). Sci Rep 2014; 4:5686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu Z, Gauthier DJ, Boyd RW. Stored light in an optical fiber via stimulated Brillouin scattering. Science 2007; 318:1748–50.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sakurai Y, Itou M, Barbiellini B, Mijnarends PE, Markiewicz RS, Kaprzyk S, Gillet J-M, Wakimoto S, Fujita M, Basak S, et al. Imaging doped holes in a cuprate superconductor with high-resolution Compton scattering. Science 2011; 332:698–702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoschette JA. The Engineer’s Career Guide. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Gorban AN, Kevrekidis IG, Theodoropoulos C, Kazantzis NK, Öttinger HC, editors. Model Reduction and Coarse-Graining Approaches for Multiscale Phenomena. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Arnold VI. Conditions for non-linear stability of stationary plane curvilinear flows of an ideal fluid. In: Givental AB, Khesin BA, Varchenko AN, Vassiliev VA, Viro OY, editors. Vladimir I. Arnold - Collected Works: Hydrodynamics, Bifurcation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry 1965-1972. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. page 19–23.

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. Here’s Why LSD Microdosing Could Be The Next Major Breakthrough In Mental Healthcare [Internet]. IFLScience2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/heres-why-lsd-microdosing-could-be-the-next-major-breakthrough-in-mental-healthcare/

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. Use of Corps Electronic Signature System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Buckley MK. A study of at-risk students’ perceptions of an online academic credit recovery program in an urban North Texas independent school district. 2012;

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

Rothenberg B. Murray, on a High, Raises His Sights. New York Times2016; :B13.

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