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

Dolgin E. Devices: Artificial inspiration. Nature 2012; 489:S12-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemmi JM, Zeil J. Robust judgement of inter-object distance by an arthropod. Nature 2003; 421:160–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thornalley DJR, Elderfield H, McCave IN. Holocene oscillations in temperature and salinity of the surface subpolar North Atlantic. Nature 2009; 457:711–4.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhao Y, Hu L, Liu H, Liao M, Fang X, Wu L. Band gap tunable Zn2SnO4 nanocubes through thermal effect and their outstanding ultraviolet light photoresponse. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6847.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rider MJ. Design and Analysis of Mechanisms. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Didonna F, editor. Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

van Dijk NH. Structure Evolution in Materials Studied by Time-Dependent Neutron Scattering. In: Eckold G, Schober H, Nagler SE, editors. Studying Kinetics with Neutrons: Prospects for Time-Resolved Neutron Scattering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. page 101–22.

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. Laser Device can Diagnose Malaria in 20 Seconds [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/laser-device-can-diagnose-malaria-20-seconds/

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. Strategic Bombers: Logistics Decisions Impede B-1B Readiness and Supportability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woodard J. Emergent properties. 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

Talbot M. Revisiting the Revolution, This Time as a Tourist. New York Times2014; :TR4.

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